The Mongol legal code had strict provisions concerning the fate of criminals and captives, as is seen in the following decree:

After a bandit has surrendered himself to the government, the government official who accepts his surrender shall under no circumstances accept as gifts captured men, and women. . . If these people do not have any relatives and have consequently no place to go, the official should match them as husbands and wives so that they can establish their own households. All people who have been detained by bandits are to be set free.

A government official in charge of barbarian affairs who willfully mairies a confiscated woman under his custody will receive eighty seven blows by a wooden stick and be dismissed from his office. The woman in question will receive forty seven blows by the same instrument.

Source : Yuan...