A history of civil law in early China: cases, statutes, concepts and beyond

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Notes

1 Zhaoyang Zhang, Zhongguo zaoqi minfa de jiangou (China University of Political Science and Law Press 2014).

2 While some earlier law-related Chinese treatises had used the term ‘fen分’ (i.e. portion) to denote ownership, by the Han Dynasty the more commonly-used term was the binome ‘mingfen’, which combined the concept of title to rank (ie ming) with the inheritance law concept of fen.