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Show Plenty af Ceurta In Egypt Egypt possesses at least three concurrent con-current Jurisdictions. The native courts deal with all crimes committed by natives and all civil disputes between be-tween Efyptlan subjects. Ths mixed courts, staffed with Judges representative of all the European Euro-pean powers holding capitulations In Egypt, decide cl?U esses between Europeans Eu-ropeans of different nationalities or between be-tween Europeans snd natives. And the consular courts of the various powers pow-ers decide all eases between their own nationals and charges . of crime brought sgalnst such nationals. Finally, the "Shsrla," or native religious re-ligious Moslem courts, decide all cases of Inheritance and of what In America would be called "chancery" matters, for Mohammedans, while the different patriarchal councils act In similar esses for Jews, CVints, Armenians and fhers. Detroit News. |