梅因法律拟制概念及法律发展观

在《古代法》一书中,梅因将法律拟制看做是协调法律与社会发展的媒介,其背后隐含着深刻的法律发展命题。拟制作为法律公约社会复杂性的一种方法,其目的在于解决法律发展过程中"变"与"不变"、"多"与"一"所构筑的时空困境。时间维度宣告了法律发展的必然性和拟制的目的正当性,空间维度则暗含了法律发展的限度和拟制的形式正当性。在一个建设的时代,随着社会复杂性的不断增加,法律的发展应当遵循渐进与开放的拟制逻辑。

On Maine＇s Legal Fiction Concept and the Legal Development Theory

In the ＂Ancient Law＂, Sir Henry Maine con siders legal fiction as the medium of coordinating law and social development, which implies a profound proposition on legal development. As a method for law to reduce social complexity, fiction is intended to resolve the time and space dilemma built by the ＂change＂ and ＂unchange＂ and the ＂multiple＂ and ＂single＂ in the process of legal development. Time dimension declares the necessity of legal development and the legitimacy of legal fiction purposes; space dimension implies the limitation of legal development and the legitimacy of legal fiction forms. In a constructive era, with the increasing social complexity, legal development should comply progressive and opening policy of legal fiction.