This paper describes the late imperial militarized mode of adjudication (yi junfa congshi) and its relationship to eighteenth-century cases of summarized execution under the imperial standard (gongqing wangming). It shows that during the Ming and Qing, militarized adjudications, which were essentially summary in nature, occurred along a spatial-temporal gradient of military operations which was a function of proximity to and intensity of active military operations. The paper also demonstrates that prior to the eighteenth century, militarized adjudication was a different mode of adjudication from the routine adjudicative system (zhuanshen, heshen, qingzhi) associated with the Qing Code (DaQing lüli). When norm-violating behavior occurred clo...