令状制度对英国法律文化的影响

令状制度是一项重要但却常常被人们忽视的制度,它的发展轨迹应该说是与英国普通法同步的,英国法律文化中重视程序的精神、限制王权的传统和别具特色的法律教育都与令状制度有着千丝万缕的联系。众所周知,英国法律文化十分重视传统,而令状制度即是传统之一。

Significance of Writ System to the English Legal Culture

This article is on the English writ system.The article attaches importance to the growing and changing situation inside the writ system.Finally,the article introduces and relates the significance of the writ to the English legal culture.The author regards the system as a reflection or an extension of certain national cultural mentality,and as the outcome of comprehensive settings,the forms of action made up of writs are neither mere rubrics nor dead categories.They are not the outcome of a classificatory process that has been applied to pre-existing materials.Historically,recognizing and analyzing a system,in fact,is to recognize and analyze ourselves.