法典赋名及其恰当性述论

On the Bestowing Code and Its Appropriateness

将一部法律正式赋予法典名称,本文称为“法典赋名”。法典是历史性和科学性相结合的词汇。在我国语境中追溯源流,法典是具有权威属性的中国古词,于19世纪90年代后成为学术界、法律界用语。中华人民共和国成立后,法律体系重建之初,未进行法典赋名。改革开放后,随着自主意识深化和法律体系的逐步完善,我国渐入法典赋名时刻。刑法向刑法典名称“跨了半步”,民法“跨了一步”——民法典获颁。法典应为完善统一的形式与层级较高的内容位阶的统一,并非法典编纂工作后的必然名称。“基本法律法典赋名化”应成为民法典之后的法典赋名方式。我国纵向法律体系由此出现新层级、新面貌,并带来千年法典史的新发展,中华法系由此实现古今对话。法典赋名应建立在本国纵向法律体系、法律渊源和法律文化基础上,并基于民族性而成为世界法律文明中的标志性存在,这便是法典赋名的恰当性选择。

The formal naming of a code is referred to in this article as“bestowing code”.Code is an authoritative ancient Chinese word,which became a term used in academic and legal circles after the 90s of the 19th century.After the founding of the People's Republic of China,at the beginning of the reconstruction of the legal system,no code was bestowed.After the reform and opening,with the deepening of the sense of autonomy and the gradual improvement of the legal system,China has gradually entered the moment of bestowing code.The criminal law“took half a step”towards the name of the criminal code,and the civil code“took a step”:the civil code was promulgated.The code should be the unification of the form of perfection and the unity of the content of the higher level,and the inevitable name of the codification work.“Bestowing of the Basic Law Code”should be the way code is bestowed after the Civil Code.As a result,China's vertical legal system has emerged at a new level and a new look and has brought about a new development in the history of the thousand-years-old legal code,and the Chinese legal system has realized a dialogue between ancient and modern.After all,the bestowing code should be based on the vertical legal system,legal source,and legal culture of the country,and become the symbol of the world legal civilization based on the nationality,which is the appropriate choice of the bestowing code.