浅析盐业合伙契约的民间法特色——以四川自贡盐业契约为例

民间契约是民间法的重要表现形式之一,属于一种"普遍性判断标准"或广义上的"法律渊源"。盐业合伙契约作为我国近现代一种独具民族传统特色的民间契约形式,无疑属于民间性规范的范畴。通过对其具体内容以及民间性特点的分析,有利于人们认识在国家法占主导地位的今天如何为民间法留下适当的生存空间,从而为中国法治理论研究提供有益的制度性资源。

Folk-Law Feature Analysis of Salt-Industry Partnership Agreement

Folk agreement,an important expression of folk law,belongs to a "universal judging standard" or a "legal origin" in a broad sense.The salt industry partnership agreement of modern China belongs undoubtedly to the category of folk norm with national traditional features,and an analysis of its concrete content and folk features is conducive to an understanding how the dominant state law allows folk law appropriate existence space,so as to offer useful systematic resources for China's theoretic researches into rule by law.