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PRINCIPAL AND ACCOMPLICE, (contd.)
Specific instances

accessory brought in as principal, 38

do. in premeditated murder, 37
do., severe treatment of, 36

bystander and one who lends moral countenance,
distinction between, 40

different statutes, effect of conviction under, 34
employé does the injury, 33

do., essentials for position of, 34

eye-witness, treatment of, 39

fight with

fatal issue, apportionment of

responsibility where, 35

hiring or inciting the commission of an offence, 34
household, members of; distribution

responsibility among, 36

larceny and resisting arrest, 35

do. by several, 35

murder, uncontemplated or undesigned, 39

none responsible as principal, 35

of

originator of assault present directing and not

present directing, 32

parent's orders, effect of acting under, 36

planner withdraws at last moment, 34

poisoning by several, distribution of responsi-

bility, 38

principal, none responsible as, 35

request of another, effect of joining on, 33
suicide at instance of another, effect of, 34
do., assistance at, 38

Prisons (v. Punishment)

PRIVATE ARRANGEMENT, 6-7

capital offence, touching, 7
not permissible, 7

penalty for, 6

power of Courts touching, 7

PRIVATE JUSTICE, 5-6

Ch'ien Lung, remarks by Emperor; concerning, 6
limit of time, 6

not permissible, 5

special consideration, 6

PRIVILEGE, 108-115

grounds for, 108

wider meaning of, 108

Effect of, 109

offence by privileged person, how treated, 109
Privileged Classes, 109-115

chief, 109-115

graduates, 114-115

favour shown, 114-115
Imperial Family, 109-110
who included, 109

favour shown, 110

differential, lenient, and comprehen-
sive, 110

maintenance allowance stopped, 110

Imperial eunuchs, 10-III

treatment for, 110-111

nobility, 114

favour shown, 114

officials, III-114

treatment for, 111-114

degradation, effect of, III

elevation of children, effect of, 113

retirement, effect of, 113

public and private nature, offences of;
distinction, 112

priests, 115

not specially favoured, 115
Tartar Banner force, 114

favour shown members, 114

Privileged Classes (v. Privilege)

PROCURATION, 371

divorced wife, how considered, 371
treatment of, 371

PROCURING ABORTION, 371-372

drugs, by use of; phrase for, 372
flooding, death from; do., 372

obtaining noxious thing, penalty for, 371
penalty for, 371

PROFESSIONAL CLASS, Intro. p. LVIII
PROFLIGACY IN OFFICIALS, 563

gaming, penalty for, 563

keeping a gaming house, penalty for, 563
spending a night in a music hall, penalty for, 563
PROPAGATING IMMORAL LITERATURE, 565
magistrates and officials, duties in prevention
of, 565

penalty for, 565

author or compiler, in case of, 565

if an official, 565

purchasers and readers, in case of, 565
vendors, in case of, 565

PROPERTY, OFFENCES AGAINST (v. specific offences —
Arson; Embezzlement; Larceny; etc. etc.)
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN, 381-382

detention of children, 382

discovery do. do., treatment of on, 381

sale of children, 382

PUBLIC STORES, ETC.,

WITH, 479-481

cause of, usual, 479

officials, by, 480

UNLAWFUL

issuing superior goods, 480

DEALINGS

lending official goods for private purposes, 480

rations to Bannermen, dealings

ing, 480-481

receiving inferior goods, 480

regard-

PUNISHMENT, 52-82

Ancient punishment, 52—55

Chou and Han dynasties, penalties in time
of, 54

Li Li, Minister of Justice, commits suicide, 55
Shun, penalties in time of, 53

traditional instance of, 52

Yü visits frontier states, 54

Varieties of, 55-57

division into degrees, 56

Capital, 57-63

decapitation and exposure of the head, 59
do. simple, certain, 60

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do., subject to revision, 61

may be forthwith carried out, 60
may be subsequent to death, 61

slicing to pieces and extinction of the
family, 57

artistic in a measure, 59

not extraordinarily inhuman, 58
subsequent to death, may be carried

out, 58

slicing to pieces, simple, 59

strangulation, certain, 62

a painful death, 62

do. subject to revision, 62
seldom carried out, 63

improper execution, 64

responsibility where, 64

in case of death, 54

self-execution, 63-64

special favour for High officials, 63
Yeh's opinion concerning, Viceroy, 63

Other forms, 62-72

bamboo, forms of, described, 68-69

how to be inflicted, 69

PUNISHMENT (contd.)

branding, mode and purpose of, 71
cangue, described, 69-71

additional to transportation, 70
life, cangue for, 71

light punishment, not a, 70

fetters, perpetual, described, 71
fines and forfeitures, 76-78
fines, described, 76-77
ancient practice, an, 76

initial punishment, non-existence as, 76
exception, possible, 76

payable, to whom, 77

several responsible, how made up, 77
several victims, how imposed, 77
forfeitures, described, 78

exacted, when, 78
imprisonment, described, 72-76
object of, original, 72

do. for three or four years, 72

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prisons, condition of, 73

do., regulations regarding, 73

jailers, position of, 74

escape, liability for, 75

ill treatment by, how punished, 75
prisoners, treatment of, 73

wearing of fetters by, 74

iron bar, described, 71

penal servitude, described, 67-68
domestic servitude, forms of, 68

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transportation, described, 64-67

distance, calculation of, 65

further term, when imposed, 66

lord or parents, transportation at request
of, 66

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