storyThe law that would not punish it
พระอัยการเบ็ดเสร็จ · phra aiyakan betset
Clause 117: if second-class people box or wrestle and someone is hurt or dies, no penalty.
What it is
A clause in the Miscellaneous Laws of the reign of King Ekathotsarot, 1590 to 1605, quoted in the English article.
The long version
"CLAUSE 117: ARTICLE I. Second-class people who fight by boxing (Muay) or wrestling, which then results in injuries or death, cannot be penalized…"
Inference — a legal exemption is a more reliable witness than a chronicle, because it is written to solve a problem somebody actually had. For a court to write this down, men must have been boxing often enough, and dying often enough, that magistrates needed telling what to do.
Note who it covers. Second-class people — commoners. The exemption is for the fights in the field behind the temple, not for the ones in front of the throne.
Connected to
- The King's Guard, 1455 The other half of the same society.
- Children in the ring The modern version of the same question.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Muay Thai — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Muay Thai — Wikipedia (en)
- Ekathotsarot — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there