On The Principle Of Good Faith In Civil Litigation

The principle of Good faith was one of the conceptions of private law at the early stage, and also was the legal regulations of moral rules in the market-economic activities. Along with the continuous development of current civil judgement system reform, some scholars have put forward to put the principle of Good Faith which is one concept of civil entity law into the use of domain of civil actions, and it should become one basic principle of civil procedure law. The appearance of this point of view aroused abroad controversy. The author thinks, the principle of Good Faith which originated from the ancient Rome Law, along with the renaissance of ancient Rome Law, was introduced into the domain of civil law. Up to now, the meaning of Good Faith has continuously extended and enriched, and has oversteped the realm of the law of creditors'rights, and has expanded to all civil law branches. As to whether it can expand to the domain of civil procedure law and become one basic principle, first we should probe into it's origin and development and probe into the trend that Good Faith Principle develops unceasingly from the private law to the...