Zhé yù guī jiàn 折獄龜鑑

Tortoise-Mirror for Adjudicating Cases by 鄭克 (Zhèng Kè, 12th c., 宋)

About the work

An 8-juan Southern Sòng judicial-decision casebook, expanding Hé Níng’s Yí yù jí (KR3c0006) and providing the standard pre-Yuán yí yù-genre reference. Composition: bracketed by Zhèng’s mid-12th-century working life. The frontmatter brackets to ca. 1131–1180.

Abstract

The Zhé yù guī jiàn is one of the principal Sòng-period legal-historical reference works. The bibliographic record: Sòng shǐ yìwén zhì; SKQS Zǐbù — Fǎjiā lèi.