浅析中国古代家族法之效力问题

Effect of Chinese Ancient Family Law Issues

家族,这一中国古代最为重要的社会组织形式,其存在对于封建社会秩序的稳定发挥了极其重要的作用。同时,存在于不同家族中诸如家法、族规等家族法,更是在某些领域替代了国家法而发挥作用,从而形成了在中央王朝颁布的成文法典之外的一套有着自身特点的行为规范体系。那么,中国古代家族法究竟在哪些范围内发挥着效力,其与国家法的效力范围有着怎样的关系?本文立足于此,以中国古代家族法的效力问题为考察对象,从对人效力和对事效力两个方面对中国古代家族法加以阐述。

Clan,the most important forms of social organization in ancient China,played an extremely significant role for the stability of order of the feudal social. Meanwhile,clan law,such as clan discipline and tribal criterion existing in different clans,worked further in some areas in replace of national law,which formed a system of behaviors＇ standard with own characteristics in addition to written law enacted by the central dynasty. So,in what range did ancient Chinese clan law work efficiently？ What＇s the relationship of clan law and national law in scope of validity？ Based on it,this paper,taking the scope of validity of ancient Chinese clan law as the object of study,will elaborate it from two aspects including the validity for people and things.