Ta Tsing Leu Lee :

being the fundamental laws, and a selection from the supplementary statutes, of the Penal code of China; originally printed and published in Pekin, in various succesive editions, under the sanction, and by the authority, of the several emperors of the Ta Tsing, or present dynasty. /
Translated from the Chinese; and accompanied with an appendix, consisting of authentic documents, and a few occasional notes, illustrative of the subject of the work; by Sir George Thomas Staunton, bart.
Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Staunton, George Thomas, Sir, 1781-1859.
Format: Book
Language:English
Chinese
Published / Created: London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810.
Subjects:
Notes:"Abstract [in English] of the title-page to the edition of the original Chinese work, printed in the year 1799, from which the fundamental laws, translated in the following pages, have been extracted. A still later edition, exactly similar in respect to the fundamental laws, but containing a greater number of supplementary statues, and a different selection of illustrative notes, has likewise been occasionally consulted."--p. lxiii.

Includes index.

Physical description: xxvi (i.e. lxxvi), 581 p. : facsim ; 31 cm.

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