. The redemption of Egypt. Bet el-KAdi. Mehkemeh Sheraieh, over which the Kadi presides, are the last ofthe native tribunals to have been reformed.^ Up to the presentyear they have preserved their mediieval flavour with singularsuccess. The regulations which the Government framed for thedirection of the Kadi were ineffectual. Unfortunately, writes, these courts have displayed a marked dis-inclination to depart in any Avay from their traditional methodsof procedure. As an instance of this pertinacious conservatism, 1 See p. 7

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