宋代司法的运行及其法理:以阿云案为考察对象

The Song Law’s Logic and Practice Revealed by A-Yun’s Case

宋代阿云案是司法中的重要案件,对于其案情的事实问题和法律问题,需要重新梳理。阿云只能做凡人处理,也不能适用自首的法律规定。在宏观层面上看待阿云案,要区分该案中争论双方从不同的文本原意与社会现状两方面解释法律,并追寻以天理人情和礼制为主的自然法意向来论证自己解释的合理性;该案件还隐含着律敕的关系和地位、司法保障个案正义还是普遍正义的问题。阿云案是司法案件,最终却成为了政治案件;虽然帝制中国的司法运作理念是专业化的,司法和政治在一定程度上是分立的,但到了一定的临界点就会纠合一处,共同成为实现惬意合理人间秩序的工具。

A-Yun’s case revealed that,although the imperial China’s concept respecting the legal practice was professional and law and the politics were,to a certain extent,independent of each other,many cases finally became a politico-legal mixture and were remolded into the tools whereby the harmonious secular order could be fulfilled.