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