Goryeo legal code

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The Goryeo legal code was the foundational body of law for Korea’s Goryeo dynasty, systematizing criminal and administrative regulations in a codified form heavily shaped by Chinese legal and Confucian traditions.

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instanceOf legal code
aimedAt defining crimes and punishments
maintaining social order
regulating bureaucracy
appliesIn local magistrate courts
royal courts
appliesTo Goryeo dynasty NERFINISHED
commoners
slaves
yangban NERFINISHED
basedOn Song legal practices
Tang Code NERFINISHED
contains administrative statutes
penal provisions
regulations on status groups
country Korea NERFINISHED
emphasizes filial piety
hierarchical social order
loyalty to the monarch
follows Chinese legal traditions
governs central government
local administration
hasPart administrative law
criminal law
hasPurpose limiting arbitrary punishment
standardizing judicial practice
historicalSignificance bridge between Chinese and later Korean legal traditions
foundation of medieval Korean law
influenced Joseon legal system
influencedBy Buddhist norms
Confucianism NERFINISHED
language Classical Chinese
legalPhilosophy Confucian moral order
state-centered authority
legalStatus codified law
legalSystem Confucian legal system
region Korean Peninsula NERFINISHED
regulates family and kinship duties
land administration
military obligations
official conduct
taxation procedures
timePeriod Goryeo period
typeOfPunishment capital punishment
corporal punishment
exile
forced labor
usesPrinciple li and fa

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Tang Code influenced Goryeo legal code