| Titre | Contra legem ou Para legem ? La coutume de l'union matrimoniale de fait en droit civil japonais avant 1945 | |
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| Auteur | Éric Seizelet | |
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Revue | Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident |
| Numéro | no 23, 2001 La coutume et la norme en Chine et au Japon | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | III. Coutumes, droit coutumier et droit civil |
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| Page | 109-124 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Contra legem or Para legem ? The de facto marriage as custom in prewar Japan civil law
In spite of the mandatory provisions of the 1898 Civil Code imposing registration as a legal condition for marriage validity, de facto marriage (naïen), inherited from matrimonial practices and representations, remained extendedly admitted during the Edo period. This continuation not only reveals a gap between law and social reality ; but it has also to be put back into the context of the bureaucratic, judicial and scholarly debate over both marriage as legal institution and custom as a source of positive law. This new conception was initiated during the first part of Meiji period, which was characterized by an overall redefinition of social status challenging the traditional conception of marriage. The recognition and half-legitimization of de facto marriage by the courts as a promise of marriage evinces the flexible role played by the judge-made law in mitigating the dysfunctional effects of a strict application of civil law, while legally consolidating the household as the basic unit of the imperial state. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/oroc_0754-5010_2001_num_23_23_1139 |
