1. fasc. Lois générales. Tribunal suprême des fonctions publiques. Tribunal suprêmes des familles et des revenus.
2. fasc. Tribunal suprême des rites. Tribunal suprême des armes. Tribunal suprême des peines. Tribunal suprême des travaux publics. Index général.

" ... the Chinese texts of each translated statute or sub-statute are placed at the bottom of the page. Boulais, unlike Staunton, translates sub-statutes as well as statutes. However, he is far less complete than Philastre, for he ... omits no less than 64 of the 436 sections of the Code entirely." Cf. Bodde and Morris, Law in imperial China, p. 74.

" ... the Chinese texts of each translated statute or sub-statute are placed at the bottom of the page. Boulais, unlike Staunton, translates sub-statutes as well as statutes. However, he is far less complete than Philastre, for he ... omits no less than 64 of the 436 sections of the Code entirely." Cf. Bodde and Morris, Law in imperial China, p. 74.

" ... five editions of such compendia (collected statutes) of administrative regulations, all of which were entitled Da Qing huidian 大清會典 (Collected statutes of the Great Qing). Each also was published with supplementary precedents and regulations (shili 事例) ..." Cf. Wilkinson, Chinese history, a manual, p. 550.

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.
Reprint of the 1810 ed.
Page lxxvi incorrectly numbered xxvi.
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 = 大清律例重訂輯註通纂： 嘉慶十年新鐫

"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 statutes, and a different selection of illustrative notes, has likewise been occasionally consulted."--Page lxii.