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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 successive 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., F.R.S.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
- Standardized Title:
- Da Qing lü. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal law--China.
- Criminal law.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvi, that is, lxxvi, 581 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : facsimile.
- Manufacture:
- London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1810]
- Language Note:
- In English; translated from the Chinese.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Frontispiece: Fac-simile [in Chinese] of the title-page of the latest edition of the Ta Tsing Leu Lee published in the year 1805, the 10th of the reigning Emperor Kia King.
- Abstract [in English] of the title-page to the edition of the original Chiense 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 statutes, and a different selection of illustrative notes, has likewise occasionally been Consulted."--page lxii.
- Includes index.
- "Errata."--[1] page, 3rd count.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- Local Notes:
- Scanned copy defective: page lxii wanting.
- OCLC:
- 937016670
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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