Research On Contractual Documents Of The Uyghurs During The Republic

contract is a great change in the development of human being,so do the legal system. It have produced profound social consequences. Humanities and Social Sciences and legal field have paid attention to the contract system for a long time.Contractual relationship is a particularly colorful and diversified forms in the tradition of China. Each contract have a specific context and content. So there is great niche in the academic research to compare contracts with legal research materials.The Uyghur ethnic group’s contracts, belongings to the national law theory, is a abundantly treasure trove in the period of Republican China. There are thousands and thousands of folk contracts scattered in the vast land of Xinjiang. These contracts actually record economy and law life,which actually reflects the development of society and religion law.It has been known that dealing lands contracts had rise in the third century, which proved oasis people paying attain to the principle. Since the Uyghur ethnic group believe in Muslims, they have been guiding their legal acts by Islamic law. The presence of great deal of Chagatai text Uyghur contract documents has related to detailed civil law in the Islamic Legal system. Islamic culture dominated southern Xinjiang oasis society,land is seen as the basis of the whole social life. Land contracts happen to presents economy relationship and land of the agriculture community. Republican southern leases reflects the land possessing,changing and disputing solution in the southern society. Research South Xinjiang Land Contract could insight into land transactions and its inheritance, which may provide some references and lessons value for the legal system and judicial practice Xinjiang place.