《明史·志·卷六十九》
对那些法网之外的犯罪行为，诸位圣皇随时推衍法律而有案例，这些案例是辅助法律的手段，而不是破坏法律。
其法外遗奸，列圣因时推广之而有例，例以辅律，非以破律也。
For those criminal behaviors that were beyond the reach of laws, successive emperors always extrapolated laws according to existing cases. These existing cases were means to assist laws rather than to disrupt laws.