Contracts, Property, and Litigation
Contracts, Property, and Litigation
Intermediation and Adjudication in the Huizhou Region (Anhui) in Sixteenth-Century China
This chapter examines issues related to the nature of legal decisions and the use of evidence and court procedures in China. It shows the active litigation culture from the Song dynasty to the Ming dynasty, during China's “second commercial revolution.” The study on Huizhou prefecture shows that the rapidly growing number of legal disputes, particularly those involving increasingly complex land rights, had overrun administrative legal systems and led to the increasing involvement of informal and community or village level in arbitration and dispute settlement.
Keywords: Chinese court procedures, litigation culture, Song Dynasty, Huizhou prefecture, dispute resolution
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