罗马-教会法民事诉讼程序的特征及其历史地位

Romano-canonical Civil Procedure's Characters and Historical Position

罗马-教会法民事诉讼程序在诉讼程序法中被称为"欧陆诉讼程序之母",具有重要的历史地位。它缔造了现代民事诉讼程序的雏形,是诉讼程序理性化的开端。罗马-教会法民事诉讼程序以书面程序为原则、采行间接审理模式、严格的形式证据制度、诉讼程序断续迟延、发明了简易程序,形成正式-简易二元程序结构。它是英国衡平法诉讼程序及海事诉讼程序的渊源,还促进欧陆诉讼程序的统一和诉讼法学的形成。

Romano - canonical civil procedure occupies an important position in the history of civil procedure development and is known as ＂mother of European civil procedure＂. It is the embryo of modern civil procedure and beginning of rational civil procedure. It has the following main features： documentation as a principle, immediacy, fornlal proof, sequence and formal - summary procedure structure. Its influence spreads all over Eu- rope by the power Roman catholic church. It is the origin of Britain balance procedure and maritime procedure and promote the the unification of Europe procedure and the formation of science of procedure laws.