Property Inheritance System. Modern Civil Habits

Civil Custom plays an important role in standardizing people's behavior, maintaining the order civilly. In modern China, the Civil Custom of inheritance of property has not taken important changes. It has offered a good visual angle in studying rural culture and social structure in different regions. This text will mainly utilize nationwide survey materials in the Last years of Qing Dynasty and the early years of the Republic of China, make an investigation and analysis on the modern Civil Custom of inheritance of property related to family economies , try to solve the serial relevant problems.This text has six parts in all. The front part mainly introduces meaning of selected title,current research situation and methods of the research etc. Chapter one constructs the basic theory knowledge. It explains the intension and characteristic of Civil Custom, reviews the civil and commercial custom investigation in the Last years of Qing Dynasty and the early years of the Republic of China, prepares for next texts' more careful comment. Chapter Second and three describe modern civil rule and form of inheritance of property, analysis the closely linked clan society. The Civil Customs in all parts have universality because it have a great deal of the same or close places, meanwhile, it have particularity because China is vast in territory so that demonstrates the obvious region difference. The modern inheritance of property regards inheritance of family line as the core, takes orders inherit tradition that all sons break up the family. Because all kinds of sons are various, the inherit habits of all parts is not the same. At the premise of Women not having rights of inheritance, some special areas have special performance to the inheriting of daughter and widow. This has reflected that the civil custom formed in long time living influences the modern rural social development. Chapter four has analyzed the interdynamic relation between the habits of inheritance of property and the modern inheritance law. In the process of Inheritance law criticizing inheritance of property, it has both absorb factor and abandoned factor. Finally, how to make the civil costom play its positive role at the greatest extent is the topic that we should think deeply now.