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I.
TA TSING LEU LEE;
OR
THE LAWS AND STATUTES
OF
THE DYNASTY OF TSING,
A NEW EDITION,
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KIA-KING,
OF
THE ENTIRE CODE OF FUNDAMENTAL LAWS AND SUPPLEMENTARY
STATUTES ;
WHICH, AFTER HAVING BEEN REVISED AND COMPLETED, WAS, IN THE SIXTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KIEN-LUNG, PROMULGATED IN ITS PRESENT FORM,
BY THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF STATE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC JUSTICE.
TO WHICH IS ADDED,
THE EXPLANATORY COMMENTARY ANNEXED TO THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS,
BY THE EMPEROR TONG-TCHING ; AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF ADJUDGED CASES AND A VARIETY OF USEFUL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS DERIVED FROM THE MOST APPROVED SOURCES.
Note. — The above is anAbflract of the Title-Page to the Edition of the original Chinefe Work, printed in the Year 1799, from which the Fundamental Laws, tranflated in the following Pages, have been extra£led. — A ftill later Edition, exa£lly fimilar in refpedt to the Fundamental Laws, but containing a greater Number of Supplementary Statutes, and a different Selection of illuftrative Notes, has likewife been occafionally confulted.
The Title-page of the later Edition may be tranflated as follows : “ Recently engraved “ in the 10th Year of Kia-KING, a new Edition of the Laws and Statutes of the great “ Dynafty of Tsing 5 comprifing, agreeably to the univerfal Compendium promulgated “ by the Supreme Court of Judicature on the 6th Year of Kia-KING, all the Additions
- and Alterations which have been made of late Years in the fupplementary Statutes ;
“ alfo compendious Abftradls from the various Commentaries, and an Appendix, con- “ filling of two Books of additional fupplementary Statutes. The whole carefully “ revifed and examined ; and each Copy fold for three hang fix tfien of filver.”
