连带债务共同诉讼关系之探讨

我国现行《民事诉讼法》将连带债务共同诉讼作为必要共同诉讼的情形之一,要求连带债务人必须共同进行诉讼。学术界和实务界一致认为,应将必要共同诉讼划分为固有必要共同诉讼与类似必要共同诉讼,并将连带债务共同诉讼理所当然地归入类似必要共同诉讼的范畴。从民事实体法与民事程序法的联结点上来考察,连带债务共同诉讼应属普通共同诉讼,而非类似必要共同诉讼。

Joinder of Parties with Joint and Several Liabilities

It is unclear why in China's present civil procedure law there is a compulsory requirement that parties with joint and several liabilities or claims thereof be united in a single lawsuit.A consensus has been reached by scholars and legal profession that the compulsory joinder should be categorized as inherent necessary joinder and analogous necessary joinder,and joinder of a party with joint and several liabilities beyond doubt should fall within the ambit of the latter one.In perspective of both civil substantive law and procedural law,joinder of parties with joint and several liabilities belongs to permissive joinder rather than non-analogous necessary joinder.