On The Property-rights Institutions In Song China

This dissertation is to be selected the structure of property rights, estate inspecting-adjusting institutions(财产检校制度),documents of property rights as the discussing objects,and analyses them to explain that the institutions of property rights account for the effect and influence that bestir the social and economic development and vindicate the relative social stabilization in Song China.The dissertation includes six parts.Introduction demarcates the relative concepts and the theory of property rights,and reviews the academic history of property rights research in Song China,and introduces research means,data and the expecting innovations.Chapter 1 mainly explains the economic attribute of property rights. The dissertation deems that the structure of property rights in Song are divided into three kinds,i.e.the private,the state and the common, which kind is regulated by some relevant laws of the government,and says that the reason that the different subjects of the property-rights structure results in the different combinations of the property-rights bundles affects the running ways of Economy.Chapter 2 dissertates the origin and the property-rights entitlement bundles of the common property-rights,such as ownership,possession, management,bargaining,disposition,and shows that the social attribute of property rights accounts for the prompting in social welfare in Song China by the cases study of the common property-rights,for example,the clan homestead(宗族义田义庄),the prompting-officials-and -teaching-assistance homestead(砺官助学义庄),the bringing-up homestead(举子义庄) and the corvee-assistance homestead(义役田庄). Chapter 3 expounds origin,changes,practice and effect of the laws of without-offspring and orphaned-underage in Song,then discusses that estate inspecting- adjusting institutions(财产检校制度) accounts for the state management of the inheritance and segmentation of private property, which demarcates and protects the property-rights entitlement bundles.Chapter 4 expatiates the sources,contents and applications of the civil property-rights documents,e.g.Hutie(户贴),Zhenjibu(砧基簿) and family-division files(分家关书),which are regarded as the media among the state,the estate,the property-rights subjects and the entitlement bundles.The last is the Conclusion.The dissertation argues that the property-rights institution is one of the essential economic institutions in Song China,which has the economic and social attributes that promote the social economic development and improve the social welfare.But there are inevitably some defects in the property- rights institution in Song China.