A Study On The Texts Of Criminal Justice Verdict Of Tang Dynasty

Court verdict, as a kind of judgment documents, has flourished into a mature stagein Tang Dynasty. From the Tang Dynasty, court verdict is usually an important criterionfor the selection of officials in the imperial examinations as exam content. The courtverdict of Tang Dynasty is in larger quantities for many reasons. And most of courtverdicts kept till nowadays is draft judgments, for example Zhang Zhuo’s Long Jin FengSui Pan, Bai Juyi’s Jia Yi Pan and so on. Tang Lv Shu Yi as one of ancient Chinesesociety representatives Code is the unity of Confucianism and law. It reflects the lawthinking and the ruling policy of the early Tang Dynasty’s government ruler.All-inclusive the court verdict of Tang Dynasty, content involved was the hot issuesof the ritual and law. Therefore, when we are faced with extremely complicated the courtverdict literature, should pay attention to the social value and it reflects the law and ritualissues, in order to study the ancient social life. So we can combine these kept courtverdicts and Tang law to study, and in-depth analysis of the applicable in the law of thecourt verdict, for our study of Tang Dynasty’s law culture and law thinking and futuregenerations to understand the law thinking and practice of Tang has a significantmeaning.This article is divided into four parts:The first part discusses criminal justice verdict of Tang Dynasty, describe and definecourt verdict of the Tang Dynasty’s overview and the concept of criminal justice verdict,and explain the significance of the court verdict of Tang Dynasty.The second and third parts talks about whether the Tang Dynasty court verdict judgecases according to the Tang Law or not, and how the adjudicator gives his judgment. Thewriter divides court verdict into within the family and outside the family two types tocompare the content and results of the court verdict with law article according to thesubject of crime based on criminal law in the Tang Dynasty court verdict.The fourth part is about several special regimes in Tang law reflected by Tang courtverdict. It discusses that to settle a lawsuit uses reason and law together from the courtverdict.