《旧唐书·裴传》记载了下面这样一个故事:唐穆宗登基称帝后,任命裴为兵部员外郎,又改任刑部郎中。当时长安城中有个叫曲元衡的人,是前率府的仓曹,用棍棒打死了平民百姓柏公成的母亲。事后,官府立案审理认为,柏公成的母亲死在了伤害致死罪的保辜期限之外,又以曲元衡之父曾任朝 “The old Tang Pei Chuan” recorded the following such a story: Tang Muzong ascended the throne after the appointment of Pei Wei Bing members of the Olang, but also for the Department of Punishments Lang. At that time, there was a person named Qu Yuan-yuan in Chang’an City, who was a former warehouse manager of the government office and killed the father of the common people Bai Gongcheng with sticks. Afterwards, the government put on record and held that Bai’s mother had died beyond the guarantor’s deadly time limit,