When the Republic of China began to register lawyers, Cao Rulin, a legal returnee, registered as a lawyer. His driving license number is 0 1. According to this standard, the first local lawyer in China is Cao Rulin. Then how did he take such a case?
At the end of Qing Dynasty, there was a eunuch named Hins Cheung who lived alone in the palace. I want to find a wife because I am old and weak. Through the introduction of the matchmaker, I met a prostitute named Cheng. Cheng's mother offered to marry her daughter to Cheng if eunuch Zhang could give him three hundred and twenty pieces of silver to help the Wangs pay their debts.
Eunuch Zhang agreed to the request of Empress Dowager Cheng and married Eunuch Zhang. After more than a year of marriage, the Revolution of 1911 broke out and the Qing Dynasty was overthrown. When the Qing Dynasty fell, eunuchs who had been laughed at were looked down upon everywhere. Although many things were taken out of the palace, they did not come into being. Seeing that the old man was helpless, mother and daughter Cheng decided to go.
Xiahou Cheng's mother and daughter made up their minds, went out to meet guests with eunuch Zhang, and quietly left with some gold and silver.
After his wife left, eunuch Zhang looked everywhere and couldn't find it. Suddenly one day, he received a summons from the court. It turned out that Cheng wrote to the court asking for a divorce from eunuch Zhang.
Cheng's lawyer is Cao Rulin, the biggest lawyer in the Republic of China. Cao Rulin's divorce complaint puts forward Cheng's reasons, saying: First, it is immoral and inhuman to marry a eunuch; Second, swearing is unbearable; Third, Hins Cheung was married once, ignoring his ex-wife and marrying a young wife, which constituted bigamy.
The two sides fought each other in court. Put forward a divorce, but Cheng must return the silver worth 320 when he got married and the stolen treasure, otherwise he won't agree to divorce. Cao Rulin pointed out that the person should not be the object of ownership, which was strictly prohibited in the early Qing Dynasty, not to mention the Republic of China. If Cheng is required to repay the silver worth 300 yuan, it is equivalent to acknowledging the buyer and seller, but the dissolution of marriage has nothing to do with the silver value; It turns out that the value of marrying Cheng has not been rewarded. A considerable part of her belongings are her own jewelry and articles, which should be returned to her.
He also said that he had paid off his debts on his behalf before marriage, as evidenced by documentary evidence. Cao Rulin argued that he was willing to pay for Cheng's debts. In order to pay her debts, Cheng is willing to be her maid. Although Wang and Zhang are heavily in debt, they use labor as a tool to pay off their debts. After marrying Cheng, there is no difference between husband and wife. No matter how much property they had before marriage, when the marriage was established, the property belonged to * * *, and the creditor-debtor relationship between Zhang and Wang had been eliminated.
It is pointed out that Hins Cheung, the eunuch of Cao Rulin, was married before he entered the palace, but his wife was still alive and not divorced. It is unfair for eunuch Zhang to ignore his ex-wife. Cao Rulin further argued that divorce is related to the welfare of the public. If the freedom of divorce is restricted because of money and debt, it will violate the harmony system and the legal spirit of the Republic of China.
During the trial, Cao Rulin argued with the new words of freedom and humanity and the old theories of immorality and injustice, and his words were eloquent. In the end, the judge adopted Cao Rulin's opinion and granted the divorce almost completely, but thought that it was unreasonable for Cheng to flee with gold, silver and jewels and should repay the property in installments.
Eunuchs and prostitutes can talk for a long time. If they are together, a new word called divorce is a supplement, which is bound to become a discussion among people.