中国古代侵占罪立法考究

中国古代侵占罪的立法历史悠久,其产生与发展同一定社会形态的财产关系及其复杂程度以及商品经济发达程度密切相关。没有侵占罪罪状的悠久存在,就不会有盗窃与侵占行为的分离,也就不会有今天的侵占罪罪名。从侵占罪立法的发展史上看,由于历代统治者特别是封建统治者以“子为政焉用杀”为圣言,所以中国古代侵占罪的立法是以职务或公务侵占罪为重心的。侵占罪的刑罚呈现轻刑化趋势,是历史性的进步。

On Conversion Legislation in Ancient China

Ancient conversion legislation in China has a long history. Its enactment and improvement is closely linked with the property relation of certain social forms, the complexity of that relation and the development of commodity economy. Without the long history of conversion, there would not be the separation of theft and conversion or the present crime of conversion. Judging from the evolution of conversion legislation, rulers through the ages, especially the rulers in the feudal society, believed in the saying that "Officers who serves the government shall not be punished with death penalty." Thus the conversion legislation in ancient China mainly centered on official conversion rather than private conversion. The trend to lenient punishments of conversion proves the progress of the history.