The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . Gun Factory at the Krupp Works, Essen Germany enjoys uniform codes of civil and criminal law through-out the empire. The courts are of three grades, with successively widerjurisdiction and powers in cases of appeal from lower coin-ts, thehighest being the Supreme Court of one hundred members {Reichs-gericht), Avhich sits at Leipzig. Bavaria has a supre
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . Gun Factory at the Krupp Works, Essen Germany enjoys uniform codes of civil and criminal law through-out the empire. The courts are of three grades, with successively widerjurisdiction and powers in cases of appeal from lower coin-ts, thehighest being the Supreme Court of one hundred members {Reichs-gericht), Avhich sits at Leipzig. Bavaria has a supreme court of itsown {Oberstes Landesgericht), composed of twenty-two members,with revising jurisdiction over the lower Bavarian courts. The Ger-man jury consists of twelve members, and usually three judges occu-py the bench. The shameful entanglement with politics which dis-. 288 THE GERMAN EMPIRE 289 graces and corrupts our lower courts does not exist there, and theGerman judge is placed in a position of absolute independence, be-cause, once appointed, there is no power to remove, transfer, or retirehim against his will, so long as he properly discharges his the exception of the members of the Supreme Court, appointedby the emperor upon the nomination of the Bundesrath, the judgesare appointed and paid by the various States. Since 1907 the nimiberof causes tried in the various courts of Germany has not increased asrapidly as the population. In 1911, the latest year for which figuresare available, 1,446, persons were tried by German courts, and552,560 were convicted. This was equal to convictions for each10,000 inhabitants. In 1907 the ratio was Germany has grappled witli the problem of pauperism in a veryintelligent way, though the growth of socialism, at which such meas-ures were aimed, has not been checked thereby, as 112 so
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