GERMAN LAW IN SAMOA
CONSTITUTION OF, .COURT ' QUESTIONED.
AN IMPORTANT POtNT. ( -
(Pee United Prers Association.) ■ AUCKLAND, April 18. Tho Supreme Court to-day, was asked to \ , make absolute a decree nisi for a. writ of habeas co.-pus to the gaoler at Auckland to procure the discharge of Albert Joseph '"" Atlow, who was convicted afc Samoa and' ~ sentenced under German law whflo Samoa was in the oocopation of the British. The contention was that the court at Samoa -was not properly constituted. ,' • Mr Justice Stringer eaid he supposed that until peace was proclaimed', or until. tho v annexation of Samoa was proclaimed, Ger- »■ man law was the only law that could bo recognised in Samoa. He reserved his decision.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16982, 19 April 1917, Page 7
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