GERMAN LAW IN SAMOA.
A PECULIAR CASE. Auckland, April IS. The Supreme Court was aakerl to make absolute a decree, nisi for a writ of habeas corpus to the gaoler at Auckland to procure the discharge of Albert Joseph Arlow, convicted at Samoa and sentenced under the German law while Samoa was in tlio occupation the British. The contention was that the Court at Samoa was improperly constituted. Mr. Justice Stringer said he supposed that until peace was proclaimed, or until the annexation of Samoa was proclaimed, German law was the only law that could be recognised in Samoa. He reserved his decision.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 April 1917, Page 6
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103GERMAN LAW IN SAMOA. Taranaki Daily News, 21 April 1917, Page 6
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