摘要
违约金在中外的合同实务中均有广泛的运用,文章考察了中国古代的契约文书及相关的法律制度,考察了罗马法关于违约金契约的规则,对人类社会早期的合同实践中的违约金条款作了初步的描述。文章通过考察法国法、德国法、日本法以及新近的立法动向(荷兰法、俄罗斯法、国际商事合同通则以及欧洲合同法原则),揭示它们在违约金问题上的相通之处和区别点,并对此作出若干阐释,初步提炼出一些基本的认识,以此为基础来加深对于我国法相关规则的理解。
Penalty clauses have been very popularly using in contractual practice both in China and other countries. The paper makes a historical review of some typical ancient contracts in China, ancient Chinese legal systems, and the stipulatio poenae in Roman law. The author tries to draw some characteristics of ancient contractual practice. The paper also makes a historical and comparative review of penalty clauses in French law, German law, Japanese law and some recent legislation trends, such as the Civil Code of the Netherlands, the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, PICC and PECL. The author tries to show the same and the different points among them, and makes some explanation about them. Finally, the paper shows the transformation of the legal rules on penalty clauses in China.
出处
《清华大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》
CSSCI
北大核心
2003年第4期77-84,共8页
Journal of Tsinghua University(Philosophy and Social Sciences)
基金
国家社科基金项目"债权保障法律制度研究"的一部分
