Excerpt from Extraterritorial Cases, Vol. 1: Including the Decisions of the United States Court for China From Its Beginning, Those Reviewing the Same by the Court of Appeals, and the Leading Cases Decided by Other Courts on Questions of Extraterritoriality

The need of rendering accessible the decisions of the United States Court for China, accumulating now for nearly fourteen, years, has long been recognized by the Bar and others dealing directly with the Court; but it was not until 1919 that an appropriation was provided for that purpose and then only In 1920 an item of was added to the Court's current expense fund with the understanding that it should be used for such publication.

There being no one else to assume the task of preparing the copy and seeing the work thru the press the Editor undertook it and, as against the deficiencies of the enter prise, the reader is asked to bear in mind that the work was done without expert assistance and in addition to the heavy demands of growing dockets in what is territorially the largest district of our Federal Court system.

In selecting cases for publication it has been the aim to include only those in which a question of law has been decided or discussed. Opinions of the Court of Appeals, reviewing on the merits those of the United States Court for China, have been included while, both for the convenience of the practitioner and to illustrate, as no other method can, the evolution of extraterritoriality, the leading, judicial and other, authorities from elsewhere are reproduced. It is hoped that the work may be found useful, even by those not practicing before the United States Court for China, as a case book on extraterritorial jurisdiction.

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