从清代立嗣继承个案看清代地方官对法律正义的救济

Magistrates' Legal Remedies as Seen from Cases about Adopting an Heir Inheritor in Qing Period

通过大量清代立嗣继承案例可以看出 ,地方官员运用手中的行政权威 ,干预司法 ,在具体的司法裁判上拥有很大的自由裁量权 ,他们根据实际情况及儒家传统道德伦理对法律的正义进行救济 ,使得社会公正得到更多的实现。这既维护了法律所保障的传统道德伦理与民众的信念 ,又在一定程度上保护了个人的权利和利益。

Through an assessment of a large number of legal cases involving adoptions of an heir, the author finds that magistrates cleverly wielded their administrative authority to intercede in the adjudication of legal cases in Qing period They possessed full freedom of jurisdiction on cases and could provide judicial remed ies according to individual circumstances and traditional ethics of the Confucia nism, in order to realize the maximum social justice Thus not only safeguarded legally protected traditional ethics and the essential beliefs of the people, bu t also safeguarded the rights and interests of the individual to certain extent