清末“礼法之争”对司法实践的影响

The Influence of "Legal Struggle" to the Judicial Practice in the Late Qing Dynasty

清末"礼法之争"在实质上导致了中国法律的转型,开启了法制现代化的进程,以沈家本为代表的法理派所倡导的"参考古今,博稽中外"的变化思想,得到有力的实现。通过对"礼法之争"前后两则判例的对比分析,可以看到清末司法官员在实践层面扬弃法律传统、促进法制现代化所做出的不懈努力。

In the late Qing dynasty,the ＂legal struggle＂ led to the transformation of the traditional Chinese legal system and opened the course of legal system modernization.The legal philosophy,represented by ＂Shen Jiaben＂,advocating the feeling of ＂reference history and the world＂ had been enforced.Based on comparing of two cases incurred before and after the ＂legal struggle＂,we could see the judicial officials in the late Qing Dynasty developed the useful and discarded the useless traditional law in practice and their efforts of promoting the modernization of legal system.