略析元初汉人收继婚的法律实践

帝制时代的中国是一十分注重家庭伦常的社会，历朝历代一般严厉禁止亲属“相奸”的“乱伦行为”，而元朝由于承认“收继婚”而显得有点特殊。作为一个少数民族入主中原的政权，元朝初年的史料却表明：元朝对待汉人“收继婚”的态度及在法律的处理上处于一种矛盾甚至混乱的状态，这些现象印证了杨鸿烈先生所谓“元确是为一事立一法”的论断。

Discussion on levirate legal practice for Han people of early Yuan dynasty

Traditional China was a Family-Ethics-Stressing society.The sex relationship among the family was considered to be incest and would be strictly prohibited.And Yuan dynasty seemed to be particular because of its admission to legitimacy of levirate.As an ethnic regime,its attitude and legal practice of levirate seemed to contradictory,even confused.Such phenomenon gives an annotation to what Mr.Yang Honglie had argued about Yuan Dynasty:one issue and one legislation.