A Study On The Contract Documents Of Jinping County In Qingjiang River Valley In Qing Dynasty

Chinese law enactments content focused on criminal law, civil law in ancient Codex content is relatively rare. However, the frequent presence of ancient Chinese society commodity trading, especially the transfer of land, and these economic activities require mandatory binding legal protection can take place. Ancient Chinese society lacks the relevant statute, but trading activity and must be recognized by society rules, laws to maintain its normal, so the economic habits folk spontaneous formation of economic activity undertaken this social functions can be called "customary law."River water stored in Guizhou Folk Ming and Qing Contract Documents, as we study this "common law" provides invaluable information to enable us to understand the ancient Chinese civil self-contained "common law" system.