Qing Code

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Qing Code was the comprehensive legal code of imperial China under the Qing dynasty, codifying criminal, civil, and administrative laws that governed the empire.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese legal code
imperial law code
legal code
appliedBy imperial judicial authorities
magistrates
appliesToJurisdiction Qing dynasty
imperial China
basedOn Tang Code
contains commentaries
statutory provisions
substatutes
follows Ming Code
geographicScope Qing empire
linked to: Qing dynasty
goal ensure social stability
maintain social hierarchy
preserve imperial authority
hasFeature collective responsibility provisions
detailed classification of crimes
graded punishments
special rules for different social statuses
special rules for officials
hasLegalSystemType Confucian legal tradition
penal code with moral norms
hasPart administrative law
civil law
criminal law
historicalPeriod early modern China
influenced later East Asian legal thought
influencedBy Confucianism
Legalism
language Classical Chinese
legalDomain private law
procedural law
public law
legalStatus binding law of the Qing empire
regulates administrative procedures
civil disputes
criminal offenses
family relations
official conduct
property rights
social order
replacedBy modern statutory law in the Republic of China
usedUntil late Qing dynasty
linked to: Qing dynasty

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Qing dynasty legalSystem Qing Code
Tang Code influenced Qing Code