论诚实信用原则在民事诉讼法中的发端与传承

通常认为诚实信用原则发端于罗马法,是民法领域的帝王条款,负载法律的灵活性,并为法官行使自由裁量权提供依据。回溯历史,罗马法中诉讼法与实体法合体的本质以及罗马民事诉讼中反映出的具体诚实信用规则表明,民事诉讼法中的诚实信用原则并非来自民法领域的扩张,而是同样肇始于罗马法,并随着民事诉讼法学研究的深入得以发现,在后世诸多国家的诉讼立法与司法中得以传承和发展。

On the Inchoation and Inheritance of Good Faith Principle in Civil Procedure Law

Good faith principle is usually believed to have originated in the Roman law.Its flexibility provides grounds for judges to execute their discretionary power.When we trace back to the merging of the procedural law and the substantive law in the Roman law and consider the good faith rule reflected in the Roman civil procedure law,the good faith principle does not result from the extension of the civil law but originates from the Roman Law and it has been inherited and developed with the deepened research in the concerned field.