1. The translator was John Stuart Mill. For the French version in the Pl�iade edition, see A. de Tocqueville, OEuvres;Anonymous;The London and Westminster Review,1836
2. Kinmen (Quemoy) and Matsu, which remained part of Chinese territory after Taiwan's annexation to Japan, are covered by this chapter only for the period between 1949 and the present. Note that both Kinmen and Matsu were deemed "frontlines" during the armed conflicts across the Taiwan Strait, and thus have been respectively subject to a military government. The state of martial law on these islands survived that in Taiwan and Penghu by five years;Taiwan, as one of the denominations of a political entity, refers to the archipelago including the island of Taiwan, the Penghu islands or Pescadores, and other smaller, accessory islands
3. Council of Europe and Union europ�enne des greffiers de justice, The Profession of Court Registrar/ Rechtspfleger;general,1998
4. Ibid.