In the Qing Dynasty’s canons, specific statutes pertaining to household registration, examinations, military conscription, marriage, and criminal law were established to define the subordinate legal status of servants. This chapter focuses on an analysis of the Qing criminal law to study the conditions of the master-servant relationship, to discuss the legal disparities between servants and their masters as well as the master’s family members, and to investigate the measures by which the imperial court safeguarded the masters’ prerogatives over their servants. Furthermore, by analyzing the law of runaway bannermen and servants, this chapter will explore the mechanisms through which the Qing authority protected the proprietary rights of masters over their servants.