Shanghai, Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique,1924. Reprinted by Cheng Wen Publishing Co, Taipei,1966. 1 volume in-12, 740 pp., blue cloth, in very good condition.
A translation of the Cheng law code with some abridgements. Intending to familiarise missionaries with the legal processes of Cheng China, the translator occasionally insert records of actual cases tried in Chinese tribunals to clarify obstruse passages of the Ching Code. In addition to the French translation, in many instances Boulais has included the Chinese text.