Law codes of the Malay and mainland Southeast Asian kingdoms and of British India: the Malacca digest and sea law, the Pahang code, the Thai Three Seals Law, the Mon Dhammathat of Wareru and the Cornwallis Code. A document belongs here when its cited article describes a law code of Southeast or South Asia in the premodern or colonial period. It excludes East Asian codes. The group covers royal codes and digests of customary law as well as the codes made by the British East India Company.
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Cornwallis Code (Wikipedia)
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The Cornwallis Code is a body of legislation enacted in 1793 by the East India Company to improve the governance of its territories in India.
Hukum Kanun Pahang (Wikipedia)
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Hukum Kanun Pahang (Malay for 'Pahang Laws', Jawi: حكوم قانون ڤهڠ), also known as Kanun Pahang or Undang-Undang Pahang was the Qanun or legal code of the old Pahang Sultanate.
Three Seals Law (Wikipedia)
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The Three Seals Law or Three Seals Code (Thai: กฎหมายตราสามดวง; RTGS: Kotmai Tra Sam Duang) is a collection of law texts compiled in 1805 on the orders of King Rama I of Siam.
Undang-Undang Laut Melaka (Wikipedia)
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Undang-Undang Laut Melaka (Malay for 'Maritime laws of Melaka', Jawi: اوندڠ٢ لاءوت ملاک) was a legal code of Melaka Sultanate (1400-1511) that deals specifically on matters related to maritime laws and regulations, as well as nautical procedures concerning seafaring affairs of merchant vessels.
Undang-Undang Melaka (Wikipedia)
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Undang-Undang Melaka (Malay for 'Law of Malacca', Jawi: اوندڠ٢ ملاک ), also known as Hukum Kanun Melaka, Undang-Undang Darat Melaka and Risalah Hukum Kanun, was the legal code of the Malacca Sultanate (1400-1511).
Wareru Dhammathat (Wikipedia)
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The Wareru Dhammathat (Burmese: ဝါရီရူး ဓမ္မသတ်, pronounced [wàɹíjú dəməθaʔ]; also known as Wagaru Dhammathat or Code of Wareru) is one of the oldest extant dhammathats (legal treatises) of Myanmar (Burma).
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