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FIRST DIVISION — General Laws. 1

BOOK Ⅰ.PRELIMINARY REGULATIONS. 1

Ⅰ.DESCRIPTION of the ordinary Punifhments 1

Ⅱ.Offences of a treafonable Nature 3

Ⅲ.The Privileged Claffes 5

Ⅳ.Offences of Perfons entitled to Privilege 7

Ⅴ.Relations of Perfons entitled to Privilege ibid. 7

Ⅵ.Offences committed by Officers of Government, how invefti-gated 9

Ⅶ.Offences committed by Officers of Government in their public Capacity 10

Ⅷ.Offences committed by Officers of Government of a private and perfonal Nature 11

Ⅸ.Offenders who are not liable to Banifhment 12

Ⅹ.Offenders of the Military Clafs 13

Ⅺ.Mitigation of Punifhment ibid.Ⅻ.Officers of Government, when removed without being dif-graced 14

ⅩⅢ.Offences committed by Officers of Government previous to their Elevation 15

ⅩⅣ.Degraded Officers of Government liable to the fame Obliga tions as private Individuals 16

ⅩⅤ.Relations of Exiles 17

ⅩⅥ.Extent of an Aεt of Grace or General Pardon 18

ⅩⅦ.Effeεt of an Aεt of Grace on the Condition of Offenders in Exile 19

ⅩⅧ.Indulgence to Offendersfor the Sake of their Parents 20

ⅩⅨ.Offences of Aftronomers 21

ⅩⅩ.Offences of Artificers, Muficians, and Women 22

ⅩⅪ.Offences of Perfons already under Sentence of Punifhment 23

ⅩⅫ.Indulgence to Offenders in confideration of their Age, Youth,or Infirmities 23

ⅩⅩⅢ.Plea of Age and Infirmities how to be conftrued 25

ⅩⅩⅣ Reftitution and Forfeiture of Goods ibid. 25

ⅩⅩⅤ.Offenders furrendering voluntarily 27

ⅩⅩⅥ.Offenders charged with feveral Offences 29

ⅩⅩⅦ.Proceedings in Cafes where all the Parties to an Offence have efcaped ibid. 29

ⅩⅩⅧ.Offences of Members of public Departments and Tribunals,committed in their official Capacity 30

ⅩⅩⅨ.Errors and Failures in public Proceedings 31

ⅩⅩⅩ.Diftinεtion between Principals and Acceffaries 32

ⅩⅩⅪ.Proceedings relative to Offenders who have abfconded 34

ⅩⅩⅫ.Relations mutually affifting and concealing each other ibid. 34

ⅩⅩⅩⅢ.Punifhment of Deferters 35

ⅩⅩⅩⅣ.Offences committed by Foreigners 36

ⅩⅩⅩⅤ.Proceedings in Cafes where the Laws appear contradiεtory 37

ⅩⅩⅩⅥ.Rules relative to the Increafe and Diminution of Punifhments 38

ⅩⅩⅩⅦ.Extent of the Privilege and Diftinεtion of Imperial Rank 39

ⅩⅩⅩⅧ.Relations in the firft Degree ibid. 39

ⅩⅩⅩⅨ.Participators in Offences 40

ⅩL.Refponfible Superintendants 41

ⅩLⅠ.Divifion of Time ibid. 41

ⅩLⅡ.Laws relative to the Priefthood 42

ⅩLⅢ.Execution of new Laws 43

ⅩLⅣ.Determination of Cafes not provided for by any exifting Law ibid. 43

ⅩLⅤ.Place of temporary and perpetual Banifhment 44

ⅩLⅥ.Place of extraordinary or military Banifhment 45

SECOND DIVISION, Civil Laws. 49

BOOK Ⅰ.SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT. 49

ⅩLⅡ.Hereditary Succeffion 49

ⅩLⅧ.Great Officers of State not authorized to confer Appointments 51

ⅩLⅨ.Officers of Government not allowed to folicit hereditary Honours 52

L.Supernumerary Officers of Government ibid.LⅠ.Tranfmiffion of official Difpatches 54

LⅡ.Partiality in the Examination of Candidates for Degrees 55

LⅢ.Relative to Officers of Government difmiffed for Mifconduεt 56

LⅣ.Officers of Government quitting their Stations without leave 57

LⅤ.Officers of Government to proceed to their Deftinations with out Delay 58

LⅥ.Attendance of Officers of Government at Court 59

LⅦ.Irregular Interference of Superiors with fubordinate Magiftrates ibid.LⅧ.Cabals and State Intrigues 60

LⅨ.Combination and Collufion between provincial Officersand Officers of the Court 62

LⅩ.Addreffes in favour of Great Officers of State ibid. 62

BOOK Ⅱ.CONDUCT OF THE MAGISTRATES. 64

LⅪ.Due Knowledge of the Laws 64

LⅫ.Non-Execution of an Imperial Ediεt 65

LⅢ.Deftroying or difcarding Ediεts and Seals of Office ibid.LⅣ.Errors and Informalities in public Documents 67

LⅩⅤ.Negleεting to make fuch Reports to fuperior Officers as are by Law required 68

LⅩⅥ.Officers on detached Service not reporting their Proceedings 70

LⅩⅦ.Delay in expediting the Ediεts of Government 71

LⅩⅧ.Examination of official Records 72

LⅩⅨ.Re-examination of outftanding Articles of official Records 73

LⅩⅩ.Transfer or Exchange of official Duties prohibited 74

LⅩⅪ.Alteration of the Contents of an official Difpatch ibid.LⅩⅫ.Ufe of the official or public Seal 76

LⅩⅩⅢ.Omitting to ufe, of imperfeεtly ufing, an official Seal ibid. 76

LⅩⅩⅣ.Employing the Sanεtion of Seals of military Offices upon civil Affairs 77

THIRD DIVISION, Fifcal Laws. 79

BOOK Ⅰ.ENROLMENT OF THE PEOPLE. 79

LⅩⅩⅤ.Families and Individuals to be duly enrolled 79

LⅩⅩⅥ.Families and Individuals to be regiftered according to their Profeffions 82

LⅩⅩⅦ.Privately founding religious Houfes, and privately enter-ing into the Order of Priefthood 83

LⅩⅩⅧ.Rule of Succeftion and Inheritance 84

LⅩⅩⅨ.Regulations concerning ftray Children 85

LⅩⅩⅩ.Impartiality in the Levy of Taxes and perfonal Services 86

LⅩⅩⅪ.Impartiality in the Allotment ofperfonal Services 87

LⅩⅩⅫ.Evafion ofperfonal Service 88

LⅩⅩⅩⅢ.Supernumerary Perfons exercifing diftriεt Authority, pro-hibited ibid. 88

LⅩⅩⅩⅣ.Evafion of perfonal Service by Concealment or Defertion 89

LⅩⅩⅩⅤ.Seleεtion of the Guards and Attendants of Prifons 90

LⅩⅩⅩⅥ.Perfonal Services ofLabourers and Artificers, required be yond the legal Extent, or for private Purpofes 91

LⅩⅩⅩⅦ. Individuals deferting, or prematurely feparating from their Families 92

LⅩⅩⅩⅧ.Younger and inferior Branches of a Family difpofing of the Property without Leave 92

LⅩⅩⅩⅨ.Care of the Aged and Infirm 93

BOOK Ⅱ.LANDS AND TENEMENTS. 94

ⅩC.Fraudulent Evafion of the Land-Tax 94

ⅩCⅠ.Perfonal Vifitation of Lands fuffering from any Calamity 96

ⅩCⅡ.Lands of the Nobility and Officers of Government 98

ⅩCⅢ.Fraudulent Sale of Lands and Tenements 99

ⅩCⅣ.Officers of Government reftriεted from purchafing Lands within the Limits of their Jurifdiεtion 100

ⅩCⅤ.Law of Mortgages 101

ⅩCⅥ.Sowing and tilling Lands belonging to others 102

ⅩCⅦ.Uncultivated and negleεted Lands 103

ⅩCⅧ.Deftroying or damaging the Harvefts, and Articles conneεted therewith 104

ⅩCⅨ.Taking away, without Leave, the Fruit growing in Gar dens or Orchards 105

C.Mifapplication of the Boats or Carriages of Government 106

BOOK Ⅲ.MARRIAGE.CⅠ.Marriages how regulated 107

CⅡ.Lending Wives or Daughters on Hire 110

CⅢ.Regard to Rank and Priority among Wives ibid.CⅣ.Ejeεting from Home a Son-in-Law 111

CⅤ.Marriage during the legal Period of Mourning 112

CⅥ.Marriage during the Imprifonment of Parents 114

CⅦ.Marriages between Perfons having the fame Family Name ibid. 114

CⅧ.Marriages between Perfons related by Marriage 115

CⅨ.Marriages with Relations by Blood, or with the Widows of fuch Relations ibid. 115

CⅩ.Marriages of Officers of Government into Families fubjeεt to their Jurifdiεtion 116

CⅪ.Marriage with abfconded Females 117

CⅫ.Forcible Marriage of a free Man's Wife or Daughter ibid. 117

CⅩⅢ.Marriage with Female Muficians and Comedians 118

CⅩⅣ.Marriage of Priefts of Foe or Tao-ffe ibid. 118

CⅩⅤ.Marriage between free Perfons and Slaves 119

CⅩⅥ.Law of Divorce 120

CⅩⅦ.Giving in Marriage unlawfully 122

BOOK Ⅳ.PUBLIC PROPERTY. 124

CⅩⅧ.Regulations concerning Coinage 124

CⅩⅨ.Periods eftablifhed for colleεting the Revenues in Kind 125

CⅩⅩ.Fairnefs and impartiality in colleεting the Revenues in Kind 126

CⅩⅪ.Concealing or wafting the Proportion of excifeableArti cles fet apart for the Ufe of Government 127

CⅩⅫ.Vicarious Contributors to the Revenue 128

CⅩⅩⅢ.Premature Difcharges or Quittances for Taxes due to Government 129

CⅩⅩⅣ.Suppreffion and Mifapplication of contingent Excefs of Revenue 131

CⅩⅩⅤ.Privately lending or employing the public Revenue 132

CⅩⅩⅥ.Privately lending or employing public Property 133

CⅩⅩⅦ.Receipt, Transfer, and Expenditure of the Revenue ibid. 113

CⅩⅩⅧ.Mifconduεt of fupernumerary Revenue Officers 135

CⅩⅩⅨ.Fraudulent Appropriation of public Property ibid. 135

CⅩⅩⅩ.Revenue Officers reciprocally anfwerable for each other 136

CⅩⅩⅪ.Refponfibility of Revenue Officers in Cafes of Theft. 137

CⅩⅩⅫ.Refponfibility of Receivers and Diftributors of public Pro-perty 138

CⅩⅩⅩⅢ.Eftablifhed Regulations obferved in the Receipt and Iffue of public Stores 139

CⅩⅩⅩⅣ.Vexatious Proceedings on the Occafion of the Receipt and Iffue of public Stores 140

CⅩⅩⅩⅤ.Purity of the precious Metals payable to Government ibid. 140

CⅩⅩⅩⅥ.Refponfibility for the Damage or Lofs of public Stores 141

CⅩⅩⅩⅦ.Regular Tranfmiffion of public Stores from the inferior to to fuperior Jurifdiεtions 142

CⅩⅩⅩⅧ.Rule of Forfeiture and Reftitution 144

CⅩⅩⅩⅨ.Intermediate Charge of public Property 145

CⅩL.Concealment or Denial either of Property under Sentence of Forfeiture, or of Families under Sentence of Servitude ibid. 145

BOOK Ⅴ.DUTIES AND CUSTOMS. 148

CⅩLⅠ.Duty on Salt 148

CⅩLⅡ.Superintendants of Salt-Duties to receive no intermediate Profits 153

CⅩLⅢ.Prefervation of Salt-Laws from Negleεt ibid. 153

CⅩLⅣ.Smuggling of Tea 154

CⅩLⅤ.Smuggling of Allum 155

CⅩLⅥ.Evafion of Duties, or Smuggling in general ibid. 155

CⅩLⅦ.Merchant Veffels having falfe Manifefts of their Cargoes 156

CⅩLⅧ.Arrears of Duties and Cuftoms to be paid within the Year in which they are due ibid. 156

BOOK Ⅵ.PRIVATE PROPERTY. 158

CⅩLⅨ.Ufury 158

CL.Dilapidation of Property in Truft 161

CLⅠ.Loft and forgotten Property ibid. 163

BOOK Ⅶ.SALES AND MARKETS. 163

CLⅡ.Licence of commercial Agents 163

CLⅢ.Valuation of Merchandize 164

CLⅣ.Monopolizers and unfair Traders 164

CLⅤ.Falfe Weights, Meafures, and Scales 165

CLⅥ.Manufaεtures not equal or conformable to Standard 167

FOURTH DIVISION,—Ritual Laws. 169

BOOK Ⅰ.SACRED RITES. 169

CLⅦ.Adminiftration of facred Rites 169

CLⅧ.Deftroying Altars and facred Terraces 172

CLⅨ.Provincial facred Rites to be conformable to the Ritual Code ibid.CLⅩ.Care of the Tombs of diftinguifhed Perfonages 173

CLⅪ.Difhonouring celeftial Spirits by unlicenfed Forms of Worfhip 174

CLⅫ.Magicians, Leaders of Seεts, and Teachers of falfe Doεh-ines 175

BOOK Ⅱ.MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVANCES. 177

CLⅩⅢ.Preparation ofMedicines and Provifions for the Emperor 177

CLⅩⅣ.Charge of the Imperial Equipage and Furniture 178

CLⅩⅤ.Poffeffion and Concealment of prohibited Books and In-truments 179

CLⅩⅥ.Tranfmiffion of Imperial Prefents 180

CLⅩⅦ.Obfervance of Feftivals and Days of Ceremony ibid. 180

CLⅩⅧ.Due Performance of appointed Ceremonies 181

CLⅩⅨ.Officers of Government to addrefs the Emperor in Succef- fion, according to their Rank ibid. 181

CLⅩⅩ.Vexatioufly detaining Officers of Government from the Im-perial Prefence ibid. 181

CLⅩⅪ.Addreffes on public Affairs 182

CLⅩⅫ.Monuments raifed by Officers of Government to commemo-rate their own Aεtions 183

CLⅩⅩⅢ.Honorary Attendance on Superiors in Rank 184

CLⅩⅩⅣ.Official Meffengers contemptuoufly treating Officers of Diftriεts 185

CLⅩⅩⅤ.Sumptuary Laws relative to Drefs and Habitations 185

CLⅩⅩⅥ.Drefs and Conduεt of the Priefts 186

CLⅩⅩⅦ.Negleεt to obferve and note the celeftial Appearances 187

CLⅩⅩⅧ.Conjurors and Fortune-tellers prohibited from Prophefy-ing public Events ibid. 187

CLⅩⅩⅨ.Evading theDuty, and concealing the Occafion of Mourning 188

CLⅩⅩⅩ.Officers of Government negleεting their Parents 189

CLⅩⅩⅪ.Regulations concerning Funerals 190

CLⅩⅩⅩⅫ.Regulation of Country Feftivals. 191

FIFTH DIVISION,— Military Laws. 193

BOOK Ⅰ.PROTECTION OF THE PALACE. 193

CLⅩⅩⅩⅢ.Unauthorizedly entering the Imperial Temple 193

CLⅩⅩⅩⅣ.Unauthorizedly entering the Imperial Palace 194

CLⅩⅩⅩⅤ.Imperial Guards failing to do their Duty 195

CLⅩⅩⅩⅥ.Imperial Retinue failing in their Attendance 196

CLⅩⅩⅩⅦ.Trefpafs upon the Imperial Roads 197

CLⅩⅩⅩⅧ.Rules concerning Labourers within the Palace 198

CLⅩⅩⅩⅨ.Labourers in thePalace remaining after the Conclufion of their Work ibid. 198

CⅩC.Irregularity in paffing through the Gates of the Imperial Palaces 199

CⅩCⅠ.Examination of the Certificates or Paffports of Perfons having Employments in the Palace 200

CⅩCⅡ.Shooting or throwing miffile Weapons towards an Im-perial Palace 202

CⅩCⅢ.Soldiers and Officers on Guard to be always armed ibid. 202

CⅩCⅣ.Conviεted Perfons and their Relations not to be employed near the Imperial Prefence 203

CⅩCⅤ.Intrufion into the Space allotted for the Imperial Retinue 204

CⅩCⅥ.Paffing through Gates leading to an Imperial Palace 205

CⅩCⅦ.Scaling the Walls of fortified Places 206

CⅩCⅧ.Regulations concerning the Gates of Cities ibid. 206

BOOK Ⅱ.GOVERNMENT OF THE ARMY. 208

CⅩCⅨ.Unauthorizedly employing military Force 208

CC.Military Operations to be regularly reported 210

CCⅠ.Expreffes upon military Affairs 212

CCⅡ.Betraying the Secrets of the State 213

CCⅢ.Application for and Tranfmiffion of military Supplies 214

CCⅣ.Errors and Failures in military Operations 215

CCⅤ.Military Officers and Troops not taking the Field according to their Inftruεtions ibid. 215

CCⅥ.Soldiers ferving by Subftitutes 216

CCⅦ.Officers on the Field of Battle unfaithful to their Truft 217

CCⅧ.Connivance at the Depredations of the Soldiers 218

CCⅨ.Exercife and Difcipline of the Troops 220

CCⅩ.Exciting and caufing Rebellion by oppreffive Conduεt 221

CCⅪ.Clandeftine Sale of Horfes taken in Battle ibid. 221

CCⅫ.Clandeftine Sale of military Arms and Accoutrements 222

CCⅩⅢ.Deftroying and cafting away military Arms and Accoutrements 223

CCⅩⅣ.Poffeffion of prohibited Arms and Accoutrements 224

CCⅩⅤ.Relaxation of, and Abfence from military Duties ibid. 224

CCⅩⅥ.Princes and Hereditary Nobility employing the Troops of Government 227

CCⅩⅦ.Defertion from military Service 228

CCⅩⅧ.Favour to be fhewn to the Relations of Officers and Soldiers deceafed 230

CCⅩⅨ.Regulations of the noεturnal Police ibid. 230

BOOK Ⅲ.PROTECTION OF THE FRONTIER. 232

CCⅩⅩ.Croffing a Barrier without a Licenfe 232

CCⅩⅪ.Granting or obtaining Paffports or Licenfes under falfe Pretences 233

CCⅩⅫ.Vexatious Treatment of Travellers at the Barriers 235

CCⅩⅩⅢ.Affifting and favouring the Efcape of the Wives and Daugh-ters of Deferters 236

CCⅩⅩⅣ.Examination and Deteεtion of fufpeεted Perfons 237

CCⅩⅩⅤ.Illicit Exportation of Merchandize 238

CCⅩⅩⅥ.Employment of Bow-men upon private Services 239

BOOK Ⅳ.MILITARY HORSES AND CATTLE. 241

CCⅩⅩⅦ.Refponfibility of the Charge of Government Cattle 241

CCⅩⅩⅧ.Breeding of Horfes 242

CCⅩⅩⅨ.Examination of Animals to be purchafed by Contraεt 243

CCⅩⅩⅩ.Exercife of the Veterinary Art ibid. 243

CCⅩⅩⅪ.Improper Ufage and Negleεt of Cattle 244

CCⅩⅩⅫ.Negleεting to break in and exercife the Horfes of Go vernment 245

CCⅩⅩⅩⅢ.Killing Horfes, horned Cattle, and other Animals ibid. 245

CCⅩⅩⅩⅣ.Vicious and dangerous Animals 248

CCⅩⅩⅩⅤ.Concealment of the Increafe of Animals belonging to Government 249

CCⅩⅩⅩⅥ.Privately lending the Animals belonging to Government 250

CCⅩⅩⅩⅦ.Public Meffengers ufing the Horfes of Government without Authority ibid. 250

BOOK Ⅴ.EXPRESSES AND PUBLIC POSTS. 252

CCⅩⅩⅩⅧ.Conveyance of Government Orders and Difpatches 252

CCⅩⅩⅩⅨ.Intercepting Addreffes to Government 254

CCⅩL.Poft-houfes to be kept in Repair 255

CCⅩLⅠ.Poft-foldiers to be employed on no other Service 256

CCⅩLⅡ.Exprefs-meffengers delaying upon the Road ibid. 256

CCⅩLⅢ.Exprefs-meffengers exceeding the Allowances of Horfes and Equipage fixed by Government 257

CCⅩLⅣ.Exprefs-meffengers exceeding the fixed Allowance of Money and Provifions 259

CCⅩLⅤ.Exprefs-poft to be referved for important Difpatches 260

CCⅩLⅥ.Dilatorinefs in Tranfmiffions and Removals conneεted with the public Service 261

CCⅩLⅦ.Occupation of the principal Apartments in Poft houfes 262

CCⅩLⅧ.Tranfmiffion of private Property by Government Poft-horfes ibid. 262

CCⅩLⅨ.Officers and others compelling the Inhabitants of their Diftriεt to carry their Palanquins 263

CCL.Families of deceafed Officers to be removed at the public Expence 264

CCLⅠ.Hiring Subftitutes, and entrufting to them an allotted perfonal Service ibid. 264

CCLⅡ.Conveyance of private Property at the Charge of Go vernment 266

CCLⅢ.Privately lending the Poft-horfes of Government 267

SIXTH DIVISION,— CriminalLaws. 269

BOOK Ⅰ.ROBBERY AND THEFT. 269

CCLⅣ.High Treafon 269

CCLⅤ.Rebellion and Renunciation of Allegiance 272

CCLⅥ.Sorcery and Magic 273

CCLⅦ.Sacrilege 274

CCLⅧ.Stealing Ediεts and Ordinances of Government ibid. 274

CCLⅨ.Stealing Seals and Stamps of Office 275

CCLⅩ.Stealimg from an Imperial Palace ibid. 275

CCLⅪ.Stealing the Keys of the Gate of a Fort or City ibid. 275

CCLⅫ.Stealing Military Weaponsand Accoutrements 276

CCLⅩⅢ.Stealing Timber from a Burying-Ground 277

CCLⅩⅣ.Embezzlement of public Property ibid. 277

CCLⅩⅤ.Theft of public Property 279

CCLⅩⅥ.Robbery,—Highway Robbery 280

CCLⅩⅦ.Refcue from Prifon 281

CCLⅩⅧ.Robbing in open Day 283

CCLⅩⅨ.Stealing in general 284

CCLⅩⅩ.Stealing Horfes and other domefticated Animals 285

CCLⅩⅪ.Stealing Corn or other Produce in the open Field 286

CCLⅩⅫ.Stealing from Relations or Connexions 287

CCLⅩⅩⅢ.Extorting Property by Threats 288

CCLⅩⅩⅣ.Obtaining Property under falfe Pretences 289

CCLⅩⅩⅤ.Kidnapping, or the unlawful Seizure and Sale of free Perfons 290

CCLⅩⅩⅥ.Difturbing Graves 293

CCLⅩⅩⅦ.Unauthorizedly entering a Dwelling-boufe by Night 297

CCLⅩⅩⅧ.Harbouring Thieves and Robbers ibid. 297

CCLⅩⅩⅨ.Rules by which the Acceffaries to a Theft and the Ac ceffaries to a Robbery are diftinguifhed 299

CCLⅩⅩⅩ.What conffitutes a Theft or a Robbery, and what an Attempt only 300

CCLⅩⅩⅩL Defacing or deftroying the Marks with which Thieves had been branded 301

BOOK Ⅱ.HOMICIDE. 303

CCLⅩⅩⅫ.Preconcerted Homicide ; Murder 303

CCLⅩⅩⅩⅢ.Murder of an Officer of Government 304

CCLⅩⅩⅩⅣ.Parricide 305

CCLⅩⅩⅩⅤ.Killing an Adulterer 307

CCLⅩⅩⅩⅥ.Widows killing their deceafed Hufband's Relations ibid. 307

CCLⅩⅩⅩⅦ.Murder of three or more Perfons in one Family 308

CCLⅩⅩⅩⅧ.Murder, with the Intent to mangle and divide the Body of the Deceafed for magical Purpofes 309

CCLⅩⅩⅩⅨ.Rearing venomous Animals, and preparing Poifons 310

CCⅩC.Killing with an Intent to kill, and killing in an Affray 311

CCⅩCⅠ.Depriving of Food or Raiment 312

CCⅩCⅡ.Killing or wounding in Play, by Error, or purely by Accident 313

CCⅩCⅢ.A Hufband killing his culpable Wife 315

CCⅩCⅣ.Killing a Son, Grandfon, or Slave, and attributing the Crime to an innocent Perfon 316

CCⅩCⅤ.Wounding mortally or otherwife, by fhooting Arrows and fimilar Weapons 317

CCⅩCⅥ.Wounding mortally or otherwife by Means of Horfes and Carriages 318

CCⅩCⅦ.Praεtitioners of Medicine killing. or injuring their Patients 319

CCⅩCⅧ.Killing or wounding by Means of Traps or Springes 320

CCⅩCⅨ.Occafioning the Death of an Individual by violent and fearful Threats 321

CCC.Compromifing and concealing the Crime of killing an eider Relation 322

CCCⅠ.Negleεting to give Information of, or to interfere and prevent a violent injury which is known to be intended 323

BOOK Ⅲ.QUARRELLING AND FIGHTING. 324

CCCⅡ.Quarrelling and Fighting between Equals in ordinary Cafes 324

CCCⅢ.Periods of Refponfibility for the Confequences of a Wound 327

CCCⅣ.Quarrelling and Fighting within the Imperial Palace 329

CCCⅤ.Striking or wounding an Individual of the Imperial Blood 330

CCCⅥ.Striking ordinary and extraordinary Officers of Go vernment ibid. 330

CCCⅦ.Subordinate Officers of Government ftriking Perfons who are their Superiors both in Rank and Jurif diεtion 332

CCCⅧ.Co-ordinate or independent Officers of Government ftriking each other 333

CCCⅨ.Officers of Government ftriking their Superiors in Rank, but not in Jurifdiεtion ibid. 333

CCCⅩ.Refifting and ftriking any Perfon employed officially by Government on public Service 334

CCCⅪ.Difciples and Apprenticesftriking their Mafters 335

CCCⅫ.Unlawful Detention and Imprifonment ibid. 335

CCCⅩⅢ.Slaves and free Perfons affaulting and ftriking each other 336

CCCⅩⅣ.Slaves ftriking their Mafters 338

CCCⅩⅤ.Wives ftriking their Hufbands 341

CCCⅩⅥ.Striking a Relation not within any of the four Degrees 343

CCCⅩⅦ.Striking a Relation in the 2d, 3d, or 4th Degree 344

CCCⅩⅧ.Striking a Relation in the 1ff Degree 345

CCCⅩⅨ.Striking a Father or Mother, paternal Grandfather or Grandmother 346

CCCⅩⅩ.Wives ftriking their Hufband's Relations 349

CCCⅩⅪ.Striking a Wife's Children by her former Hufband 351

CCCⅩⅫ.Widows ftriking the Parents of their deceafed Huf bands ibid. 351

CCCⅩⅩⅢ.Striking in Defence of a Parent 352

BOOK Ⅳ.ABUSIVE LANGUAGE. 354

CCCⅩⅩⅣ.Abufive Language between Equals 354

CCCⅩⅩⅤ.Abufive Language to an Officer of Government ibid. 354

CCCⅩⅩⅥ.Abufive Language between Officers of the fame Tri bunal 355

CCCⅩⅩⅦ.Abufive Language from a Slave to his Mafter 356

CCCⅩⅩⅧ.Abufive Language to an elder Relation ibid. 356

CCCⅩⅩⅨ.Abufive Language to a Parent, paternal Grandfather or Grandmother 357

CCCⅩⅩⅩ.Abufive Language from a Wife to her Hufband's Relations ibid. 357

CCCⅩⅩⅪ.Abufive Language addreffed by a Widow to her de ceafed Hufband's Parents 358

BOOK Ⅴ.INDICTMENTS AND INFORMATIONS. 359

CCCⅩⅩⅫ.Irregularity in prefenting Informations 359

CCCⅩⅩⅩⅢ.Anonymous Informations 360

CCCⅩⅩⅩⅣ.Neglecεting or declining to receive Informations 361

CCCⅩⅩⅩⅤ.Informations which muff be transferred to the cogni zance of others 364

CCCⅩⅩⅩⅥ.Falfe and malicious Informations ibid. 364

CCCⅩⅩⅩⅦ.Informations againff Relations 371

CCCⅩⅩⅩⅧ.Difobedience to Parents 374

CCCⅩⅩⅩⅨ.Informations prefented by Criminals under Confine-ment 374

CCCⅩL.Exciting and promoting Litigation 375

CCCⅩLⅠ.Informations on Subjeεts affeεting Civil as well as Military Affairs 376

CCCⅩLⅡ.Informations and Profecutions on the Part of Officers of Government 377

CCCⅩLⅢ.Falfe Accufations of Offences punifhable with extraor dinary Banifhment 378

BOOK Ⅵ.BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION. 379

CCCⅩLⅣ.Accepting a Bribe 379

CCCⅩLⅤ.Pecuniary Malverfation 382

CCCⅩLⅥ.Receiving Money corruptly by way of Reward 384

CCCⅩLⅦ.Contraεting for and agreeing to accept a Bribe ibid. 384

CCCⅩLⅧ.Offering a Bribe 385

CCCⅩLⅨ.Extortion of Loans, and unfair Sales 386

CCCL.Extortion and other corrupt Praεtices of Perfons in the Families of Officers of Government 388

CCCLⅠ.Extortion and other corrupt Praεtices of Great Of ficers of State ibid. 388

CCCLⅡ.Levying extraordinary Contributions on the Plea of public Service 389

CCCLⅢ.Suppreffing the Difcovery of ftolen Goods 390

CCCLⅣ.Receiving Prefents from the higher hereditary Nobi lity 391

BOOK Ⅶ.FORGERIES AND FRAUDS. 392

CCCLⅤ.Falfification of an Imperial Ediεt 392

CCCLⅥ.Falfification of verbal Orders 394

CCCLⅦ.Falfely and deceitfully addreffing the Sovereign 395

CCCLⅧ.Counterfeiting any official Seal, or the Imperial Al manac 396

CCCLⅨ.Counterfeiting the current Coin of the Realm 397

CCCLⅩ.Impoftors pretending to be Officers of Government 398

CCCLⅪ.Impoftors pretending to be Great Officers of State 399

CCCLⅫ.Officers of State, and others belonging to the Court,interfering without Authority 401

CCCLⅩⅢ.Pretending to difcover Prognoftics ibid. 401

CCCLⅩⅣ.Pretending Sicknefs or Death ibid. 401

CCCLⅩⅤ.Seducing Perfons to tranfgrefs the Laws 403

BOOK Ⅷ.INCEST AND ADULTERY. 404

CCCLⅩⅥ.Criminal Intercourfe in general 404

CCCLⅩⅦ.Conniving at or confenting to a criminal Intercourfe 405

CCCLⅩⅧ.Inceft or criminal Intercourfe between Relations 406

CCCLⅩⅨ.Accufing an elder Relation of Adultery 407

CCCLⅩⅩ.Criminal Intercourfe between Slaves or Servants and their Mafter's Wives ibid. 407

CCCLⅩⅪ.Criminal Intercourfe between Officers of Government and Females under their Jurifdiεtion 408

CCCLⅩⅫ.Criminal Intercourfe during the Period of Mourning 409

CCCLⅩⅩⅢ.Criminal Intercourfe between free Perfons and Slaves ibid. 409

CCCLⅩⅩⅣ.Officers of Government frequenting the Company of Proftitutes and Aεtreffes 410

CCCLⅩⅩⅤ.Strolling Players ibid. 410

BOOK Ⅸ.MISCELLANEOUS OFFENCES. 411

CCCLⅩⅩⅥ.Defacing or deftroying public Monuments 411

CCCLⅩⅩⅦ.Care of Soldiers, and of Labourers for the Public,when fick ibid. 411

CCCLⅩⅩⅧ.Gaming 412

CCCLⅩⅩⅨ.Eunuchs ibid. 412

CCCLⅩⅩⅩ.Making illegal Propofals 413

CCCLⅩⅩⅪ.Compromifing Offences, and withdrawing them from the Cognizance of the Magiftrates 415

CCCLⅩⅩⅫ.Accidental Houfe-burning 415

CCCLⅩⅩⅩⅢ.Wilful and malicious Houfe-burning 417

CCCLⅩⅩⅩⅣ.Theatrical Reprefentations 418

CCCLⅩⅩⅩⅤ.Tranfgreffion of Standing Rules and Orders 419

CCCLⅩⅩⅩⅥ.Improper Conduεt not fpecifically punifhable ibid. 419

BOOK Ⅹ.ARRESTS AND ESCAPES. 420

CCCLⅩⅩⅩⅦ.Duty of Police Officers 420

CCCLⅩⅩⅩⅧ.Criminals refifting the Police Officers 421

CCCLⅩⅩⅩⅨ.Prifoners efcaping or rifing againft their Keepers 422

CCCⅩC.Returning or efcaping from a Place of Banifhment 423

CCCⅩCⅠ.Delaying the Execution of a Sentence of Banifhment 425

CCCⅩCⅡ.Jailors and others fuffering their Prifoners to efcape 426

CCCⅩCⅢ.Privately affifting and concealing Criminals 428

CCCⅩCⅣ.Periods allowed for the Purfuit of Thieves and Robbers 429

BOOK Ⅺ.IMPRISONMENT, JUDGMENT, AND EXECUTION. 431

CCCⅩCⅤ.Securing the Perfons of Prifoners 431

CCCⅩCⅥ.Imprifonment and Procedure againft unaccufed and unimplicated Perfons 433

CCCⅩCⅦ.Delay in executing the Sentence of the Law 435

CCCⅩCⅧ.Ill Treatment of Prifoners 436

CCCⅩCⅨ.Allowing Prifoners fharp Inftruments ibid.CCCC.Encouraging and exciting Prifoners to make ground lefs Appeals 438

CCCCⅠ.Supply of Food and Clothes to Prifoners 439

CCCCⅡ.Indulgence in confideration of the Rank and former Services of Prifoners 440

CCCCⅢ.Prifoners committing Suicide 441

CCCCⅣ.Torture not to be ufed in the judicial Examination of Children or of the Aged ibid. 441

CCCCⅤ.Confronting Offenders and their Affociates 442

CCCCⅥ.Examination of Offenders to correfpond with the Charges againft them 444

CCCCⅦ.Profecutors not to be detained after a Trial is con cluded 445

CCCCⅧ.Offenders recriminating upon innocent Perfons ibid.CCCCⅨ.Pronouncing and executing an unjuft Sentence 447

CCCCⅩ.Reverfal of a falfe Judgment 450

CCCCⅪ.Execution of Judgment 451

CCCCⅫ.Examination of the Body in Cafes of Homicide 452

CCCCⅩⅢ.Infliεtion of Punifhments in an illegal Manner 453

CCCCⅩⅣ.Proceedings againft Offences committed by fuperior Magiftrates 455

CCCCⅩⅤ.Laws, Statutes, and Precedents which are to be ob ferved in paffing Sentence ibid. 455

CCCCⅩⅥ.Prifoners upon Trial, at Liberty either to plead guilty or to proteft againft their Sentence 456

CCCCⅩⅦ.Mifapplication or Difregard of an Aεt of Grace and Pardon 457

CCCCⅩⅧ.Offending defignedly, in the Expeεtation of Impunity through an Aεt of Grace and Pardon ibid. 457

CCCCⅩⅨ.Services to be performed by temporarily banifhed Offenders 458

CCCCⅩⅩ.Punifhment of Female Offenders 459

CCCCⅩⅪ.Execution of Criminals without waiting for the Em-peror's Ratification 460

CCCCⅩⅫ.Execution of a Sentence by a falfe Conftruεtion of the Laws 461

CCCCⅩⅩⅢ.Clerks of Tribunals altering the Statements of In formers 462

SEVENTH DIVISION, — Laws relative to Public Works. 463

BOOK Ⅰ.PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 463

CCCCⅩⅩⅣ.Ordering public Works without fufficient Authority 463

CCCCⅩⅩⅤ.Unneceffary and unferviceable Works 464

CCCCⅩⅩⅥ.Public Works and Manufaεtures to be conformable to Rule and Cuftom 465

CCCCⅩⅩⅦ.Mifapplication of public Stores 466

CCCCⅩⅩⅧ.Mifapplication of the public Looms 467

CCCCⅩⅩⅨ.Working Silks or Stuffs according to prohibited Patterns ibid. 467

CCCCⅩⅩⅩ.Irregularity in the Supplies of raw Materials, and in the Iffue of manufaεtured Goods 468

CCCCⅩⅩⅪ.Due Prefervation and Repair of public Buildings ibid. 468

CCCCⅩⅩⅫ.Officers of Government not refiding in the Habita tions allotted to them 469

BOOK Ⅱ.PUBLIC WAYS. 471

CCCCⅩⅩⅩⅢ.Damaging Embankments of Rivers 471

CCCCⅩⅩⅩⅣ.Negleεting duly to repair and maintain Embank-ments 472

CCCCⅩⅩⅩⅤ.Encroaching on public Highways 473

CCCCⅩⅩⅩⅥ.Repair of Roads and Bridges ibid. 473

APPENDIX. 477

Ⅰ.TRANSLATION of the Teftamentary Ediεt of KIEN LUNG, the late Emperor of China 477

Ⅱ.Tranflation of the Ediεt of the reigning Emperor KIA-KING, by which the Death of his Father, the Emperor KIEN LUNG, was firft officially made public 483

Ⅲ.Note of the Tranflator ; containing the Titles of omitted Articles of Preliminary Matter 486

Ⅳ.Note of the Tranflator; relative to the introduεtory Table of Degreesof Relationfhip and Mourning 487

Ⅴ.Tranflation of the Supplementary Claufes to Seεtion Ⅰ. entitled " Defcription of ordinary Punifhments" 488

Ⅵ.Note of the Tranflator upon Seεtion Ⅱ. entitled " Offences of a treafonable Nature" 490

Ⅶ.Note of the Tranflator upon Seεtion Ⅲ. entitled " Privileged Claffes " ibid.Ⅷ.Note of the Tranflator; containing fome Remarks upon the Hiftory of Ho-chung-tong, the favourite Minifter of the Emperor KIEN-LUNG 491

Tranflation of an Imperial Ediεt in which various Articles of Impeachment againft the Minifter Ho-chung-tong are exhi bited 493

Tranflation of an Imperial Ediεt, announcing the Sentence of Condemnation paffed upon the Minifter Ho-chung-tong, and upon fome of his Relations and principal Adherents 498

Tranflation of an Imperial Ediεt, declaratory of a general Am nefty in favour of all other Perfons who might have been conneεted with or influenced by the faid Minifter 502

Ⅸ.Tranflation of an Imperial Ediεt, extraεted from the Pekin Gazette, containing a Statement of the Grounds upon which a Sentence of Death had been paffed upon Quay-lung,Viceroy of the Province of Sechuen 504

Ⅹ.Tranflation of an official Statement of Charges exhibited by the Sub-Viceroy of Quang-tung, againft fundry Officers of that provincial Government 509

Tranflation of an Imperial Ediεt containing the Emperor's Decifion upon the faid Charges 513

Ⅺ.Note of the Tranflator ; containing fome Remarks upon the Application of the Laws of China to the Cafe of Britifh Subjeεts trading to and refiding at Canton 515

T ranflation of an Ediεt of the Governor of Hiang-fhan, ad-dreffed to the Chinefe and Portuguefe Inhabitants of Macao, in confequence of the Refufal of the Portuguefe to deliver into the Hands of the Chinefe Magiftrates a European charged with the Murder of a Chinefe 517

Tranflation of an Imperial Ediεt iffued on the occafion of two Ruffian Ships vifiting the Port of Canton, in order to open a Trade by Sea with the Chinefe Empire 518

Tranflation of an Extraεt of an Ediεt of the Viceroy of Quang-tung and Quang-fee, iffued on the occafion of an Englifh Veffel having been ftranded on the Coaft of China 520

Tranflation of an official Statement of the Trial and Sentence of an Englifl Seaman, charged with having ftruck a native Chinefe, fo as to occafion his Death 521

Ⅻ.Tranflation of an Imperial Ediεt iffued on the Receipt of an Addrefs recommending the Eftablifhment of Colleges in the feveral Diftriεts of Tartary 525

Tranflation of an Extraεt from the Claufes annexed to Seεtion LⅩⅩⅧ. entitled " Rule of Succeffion and Inheritance" ibid.ⅩⅢ.Note of the Tranflator on the Nature of the ordinary Tenure of Land in China, in relation to the Subjeεt of Seεtion LⅩⅩⅩⅧ. entitled "rounger and inferior Branches of a Family difpofing of the Property without Leave" 526

ⅩⅣ.Extraεt of a Letter from a Miflionary at Pekin, containing fome Account of the Effeεts of an Inundation in the Province of Pe-che-lee 528

Extraεt of a Letter from a Chinefe Chriftian, containing fome Obfervations on the general State of the Population in the Province of Sban-fee ibid.TABLE OF CONTENTS.ⅩⅤ.Abftraεt of fome of the principal Claufes annexed to See tion ⅩCⅤ. entitled " Law of Mortgages" 529

ⅩⅥ.Tranflation of an Imperial Ediεt, containing the Sentence of certain military Officers conviεted of the Crime of em bezzling public Stores 530

ⅩⅦ.Note of the Tranflator on the high Rate of the legal Intereft of Money in China ; in reference to the Subjeεt of Seεtion CⅩLIⅩ. entitled " Ufury" ibid.ⅩⅧ.Tranflation of an hnperial Ediεt, containing the Emperor's Sentence upon divers Perfons conviεted of embracing, or of endeavouring to propagate the Chriftian Religion in China 532

Tranflation of an Imperial Ediεt, containing Animadverfions upon the Contents of certain Chinefe Books, defcriptive of the Tenets of the Catholic Church 535

ⅩⅨ.Tranflation of an Imperial Ediεt, iffued on the occafion of an Attempt to affaffinate the prefent Emperor 537

ⅩⅩ.Tranflation of an Extraεt from the Pekin Gazette, contain ing an official Report of certain Operations of the Chinefe Imperial Forces on the occafion of a Rebellion in the Pro vince of Sechuen 540

ⅩⅪ.Tranflation of two of the Claufes annexed to Seεtion CCⅩⅩⅤ. entitled " Illicit Exportation of Merchandize" 543

ⅩⅫ.Tranflation of the Claufes annexed to Seεtion CCLⅣ. entitled" High Treafon" 544

ⅩⅩⅢ.Tranflation of the Claufes annexed to Seεtion CCLⅤ. entitled" Rebellion and Renunciation of Allegiance" 545

ⅩⅩⅣ.Tranflation of the Claufes annexed to Seεtion CCLⅥ. entitled" Sorcery and Magic" 548

ⅩⅩⅤ.Tranflation of the moft material among the Claufes annexed to Seεtion CCLⅩⅢ. entitled " Stealing Timber from a Burying-ground" 550

ⅩⅩⅥ.Tranllation of the firft feven Claufes annexed to Seεtion CCLⅩⅣ. entitled " Embezzlement of public Property" 552

ⅩⅩⅦ.Tranflation of the Claufes annexed to Seεtion CCLⅩⅤ. en titled " Theft of public Property" 553

ⅩⅩⅧ.Tranflation of the Claufes annexed to Seεtion CCLⅩⅥ. en titled" Robbery—Highway Robbery" 554

ⅩⅩⅨ.Tranflation of the Claufes and Commentary annexed to Seεtion CCLⅩⅩⅫ. entitled " Preconcerted Homicide—Murder" 560

ⅩⅩⅩ.Tranflation of an Extraεt from a Volume of Chinefe Law Reports, containing the Trial, Revifal of Proceedings, and final Sentence, in the Cafe of an Offender charged with Homicide by Gun-firing 563

ⅩⅩⅪ.Tranflation of another Extraεt from the fame Colleεtion of Law Reports, containing the Trial, Revifal of Proceedings,and final Sentence, in the Cafe of a Mafter charged with the Murder of his Servant 566

ⅩⅩⅫ.Tranflation of the Claufes annexed to Seεtion CCCLⅩⅥ. entitled " Criminal Intercourfe in general" 569