Law specifically mentioned 10 crimes as not coming within the provisions of amnesty and which would admit of no mitigation. (1) Revolt. (2) Destruction or attempt to destroy imperial temples, temples ted to the worship of gods and imperial palaces. (3) Sedition, (Q) Murder of parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts' and murder' of a husband by a wife, (5) Murder of three persons more consecutively all belonging; (6) Sacrilegions: acts committed against utensils that had been used by the Emperor, in cluding theft thereof, (7) Swear+ ing and cursing against parents etc, (8) Murder of a relative of senior grade. (9) Murder of an official and (10) Indecent assault committed against n female Ly a male member of the family, with or without consent im= material, All of which were of course punishable by death and were held to be the major offences.
In the eye of the Chinese law, a wife was never placed on a basis of equality with the husband. Kile ing of a wife by the husband was But a common murder, but we have seen what happened to the wife who killed her husband, Law was made consistent with the philosophy of her ancient school of teachers, headed by Confucius, and alway: Kept in view its two great objects, maintenance of the absolute author= ity of the Emperor and his supposed divine origin, and secondly, the preservation of the clan system and the authority of the elder members over the younger.
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