...acre was worked out for adequate but fair taxation. He also collected into six books or main heads all that was best in the laws of the different feudal states, and composed therefrom a work styled the ' Legal Classic,' which may be compared with the Roman Institutes...

...practice, the fourth to general administration, and the last two to an exposition of offences. It " represented all that was best in the laws of the different feudal states." It is remarkable that among crimes punishable with death it included polygamy (despite the sanction...

...acre was worked out for adequate but fair taxation. He also collected into six books or main heads all that was best in the laws of the different feudal states, and composed therefrom a work styled the " Legal Classic," which may be compared (very humbly) with...

...offences, and the sixth to all the great and capital crimes against public justice. It is said to have " represented all that was best in the laws of the different...extravagance, and transgressing the ruler's commands." One remarkable feature of Li K'uei's code was that it made polygamy a crime punishable with death,...