As we have noted, the Burmese sacked Ayudhya destroying almost all legal materials in 1767. King Phra Phuttahyotfa (Rama I, 1782-1809), the founder of the present (Chakri) dynasty, decided to compile all the traditional law and remove from it aberrations such as unfair or inappropriate king-made law (rachasat). This task was completed in 1805 and the resulting code is commonly known as the Law of the Three Seals.(19) This code, because it is virtually the only extant evidence of classical Thai law,(20) represents the ancient traditional law of Thailand.(21) There is no translation into any language except modern Thai.