The inheritance,transcendence and modern transformation of court verdicts in the late Qing Dynasty:an example from Administrative Writings of Fan Zengxiang
Administrative Writings of Fan Zengxiang,as an excellent representative of the late Qing Dynasty verdict collection,not only includes the emotional factors and literary features of traditional verdict,but also shows the obvious legal awareness.In particular,new breakthroughs are made in the structural model,the logic of the argumentative process,the formulaic features of language,and the specialization of words,which show the modern mode of judicial documents that are concise and smooth,as well as with the rigorous structure.In this regard,it stands for the modern transformation of court verdicts in the late Qing Dynasty.
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