Ta Tsing Leu Li Being the Fundamental Laws, and a Selection from the Supplementary Statutes of the Penal Code of China; (Etc.) Transl. from the Chinese and Accompanied with an Appendix by George Thomas Staunton (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt: ...be confiscated; but not entitled as in the preceding instance, either to employment or promotion in the service of government. If any person who is privy to the intention to commit, or to the actual commission of the aforesaid crime of high treason, is guilty of neglecting to communicate to the magistrate of the district the information he possesses, he shall, although not expressly chargeable with any acts of connivance and concealment, be punished with 100 blows, and banished perpetually to the distance of 3000 lee. If the relations of persons intending to commit the aforesaid crime shall, previous to the commission of any overt act, deliver them up to the officers of justice, those who are so delivered up, and their several relations, shall all of them, be entirely pardoned. If the relations of persons actually guilty of any acts of high treason, voluntarily surrender them into the custody of the magistrates, such relations, and all other persons guilty by implication only, shall As this appropriation of the confiscated property of the offender, is an exception to the general rule noticed in a preceding paragraph, it is probably by no means the ordinary reward of the police officer on such occasions, but only of the person who volunteers his services, and who being the prosecutor and public accuser, thereby exposes himself to all the penalties of a false accusation, whenever the charges are not substantiated.--When the crime is public and notorious, or committed by persons high in rank or office, of whom the sovereign himself is generally the only avowed accuser, those who are instrumental in bringing the criminal to justice, merely in the course of their official duty, are not, it is conceived, intended to be benefited in the event of his conviction, an...