Rethought And Reconstruction: On The Reform Of China's Civil Counterchange System

Countercharge system, a very useful system in practice, can be traced back to offset plea in Roman law about 1,300 years ago. According to historical data, at the beginning of judicial proceeding, countercharge was not allowed in ancient Rome and then in 7th century, based on fairness, the defendant's offset plea was permitted under certain conditions and later people developed the practice into countercharge. Finally, Countercharge system was generally established in the laws of Great Britain, America, France, German, Japan and other countries.Countercharge system has its usefulness in practice and profound procedural meaning in theory as well. At first, concept of value contained