Research on Inheriting the Legal System

Author: Zhang Yumin
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Publish Date: 1999-07-01
Features: Inheritance system is a very important part of property law system. It plays a very important role in consolidating a society's economic system and maintaining family harmony and unity. Today, as China vigorously develops a socialist market economy and encourages the development of individual and private economies, the inheritance system, like the contract system, property rights system, and intellectual property rights system, faces the issue of reform and improvement. As a product of human civilization, the inheritance system, like other civil law systems, has in its basic principles and basic systems compared to the relevant systems of civil law countries with the same legal tradition as ours. Therefore, the study of inheritance system cannot be separated from the comparative study of foreign inheritance laws.