INTRODUCTION 2
Chapter 1 Civil Dispute and Remedy Mechanism 2
Section 1 Civil Dispute and Non-Litigation Remedy 2
Section 2 Litigation Remedy on Civil Dispute 7
Section 3 Civil Procedure Law 10
Section 4 Science of Civil Procedure Law 15
Chapter 2 Historical Development of Civil Procedure Law 19
Section 1 Development of Civil Procedure Law in Foreign Countries 19
Section 2 Development of Civil Procedure Law in China 24
Chapter 3 Objective and Value of Civil Procedure 28
Section 1 Objective of Civil Procedure 28
Section 2 Value of Civil Procedure 36
Chapter 4 Character and Aim and Effect of Civil Procedure Law in ChinaSection 1 Character of Civil Procedure Law 46
Section 2 Aim of Civil Procedure Law 48
Section 3 Effect of Civil Procedure Law(Include Competence) 52
Chapter 5 Jurisdiction 58
Section 1 Introduction 58
Section 2 Differential Jurisdiction 60
Section 3 Regional Jurisdiction 62
Section 4 Agreed Jurisdiction 66
Section 5 Adjudged Jurisdiction 67
Section 6 Fixation on the Right of Jurisdiction and Objection to the Right of Jurisdiction 69
PART ONE SUBJECT OF PROCEDURE 74
Chapter 6 The People's Courts 74
Section 1 The People's Courts 74
Section 2 Judicial Powers With Respect to Civil Cases 78
Section 3 Trial Organization 81
Chapter 7 Parties in Civil Action 84
Section 1 Introduction 84
Section 2 Rights and Obligations of Parties in Civil Action 89
Section 3 Parties of Joint Action 92
Section 4 Representative of Class Action 95
Section 5 Third Party 99
Chapter 8 Law-Agent 107
Section 1 Introduction 107
Section 2 Classification of Law-Agent 109
Chapter 9 Other Participants in Proceedings 114
Section 1 Witness 114
Section 2 Appraiser 119
Section 3 Interpreter,Inspector and procedure assistant 123
Chapter 10 The People's Procuratorate 124
Section 1 Duties of the People's Procuratorate 124
Section 2 The People's Procuratorate and Civil Procedure for Welfare 128
PART TWO STRUCTURE OF PROCEDURE 136
Chapter 11 Prozesshandlung 136
Section 1 Introduction 136
Section 2 Parties' Prozesshandlung 139
Section 3 Courts' Trial Action 140
Section 4 Blemish and Remedy of Prozesshandlung 142
Chapter 12 Legal Relation of Civil Action 145
Section 1 Introduction 145
Section 2 Constitution of Legal Relation of Civil Action 151
Chapter 13 Pattern of Civil Action 154
Section 1 Introduction 154
Section 2 The Building of Kooperationsmaxime in Civil Action in China 158
PART THREE PRINCIPLES AND SYSTEMS 164
Chapter 14 Fundamental Principles of Civil Action 164
Section 1 Introduction 164
Section 2 The Equity Principle of Litigant 166
Section 3 Adversary Principle 172
Section 4 Disposal Principle 177
Section 5 Directness Principle and Continuance Principle 181
Section 6 Mediation Principle 185
Section 7 Good Faith Principle 189
Chapter 15 Fundamental Systems of Civil Justice 196
Section 1 Challenge System 196
Section 2 Collegiate System 200
Section 3 Public Trial 201
Section 4 System of the Court of Second Instance Being the Court of Last Instance 205
Chapter 16 Period and Service 211
Section 1 Period 211
Section 2 Date 213
Section 3 Service 214
Chapter 17 Custody of Property and Prior Execution 217
Section 1 Custody of Property 217
Section 2 Prior Execution 222
Chapter 18 Litigation Fees 226
Section 1 Introduction 226
Section 2 Burden of Litigation Fees 229
Section 3 Judicial Remedy 233
Chapter 19 Coercive Measure against Hindrance to Civil Action 235
Section 1 Introduction 235
Section 2 Constitution of Hindrance to Civil Action 237
Section 3 Application of Coercive Measure against Hindrance to Civil Action 239
PART FOUR EVIDENCE IN CIVIL ACTION 244
Chapter 20 Introduction to Evidence in Civil Action 244
Section 1 Definition of Evidence in Civil Action 244
Section 2 Classification of Evidence in Civil Action 250
Section 3 Kinds of Evidence in Civil Action 252
Chapter 21 Testimonial in Civil Action 270
Section 1 Object of Testimonial 270
Section 2 Standard of Testimonial 277
Section 3 Responsibility of Testimonial 280
Section 4 Collection and Preservation of Evidence 288
Section 5 Confrontation of Evidence 292
Chapter 22 Investigation and Judgment on Evidence in Civil ActionSection 1 Judge's Intime Conviction 296
Section 2 Principle of Judge's Intime Conviction 299
PART FIVE PROCESS OF PROCEDURE 304
Chapter 23 Suit and Suit Rights 304
Section 1 Suit 304
Section 2 Benifit of Suit 307
Section 3 Kinds of Suit 309
Section 4 Target of Litigation 310
Section 5 Mergence and Separation of Suit 314
Section 6 Counterclaim 316
Section 7 Suit Rights 317
Section 8 Protection of Suit Rights 320
Chapter 24 General Course of Civil Action 324
Section 1 Sue 324
Section 2 Answer to Sue 328
Section 3 Pre-hearing Preparation 329
Section 4 Hearing 331
Section 5 Disposal of Special Situations in Hearing 334
Chapter 25 Summary Procedure and Small Claims Procedure 337
Section 1 Introduction To Summary Procedure 337
Section 2 Specific Stipulations of Summary Procedure 340
Section 3 Small Claims Procedure 342
Chapter 26 Civil Adj udication 347
Section 1 Civil Judgment 347
Section 2 Civil Ruling 349
Section 3 Civil Decision 351
Section 4 Civil Mediation Document 352
Section 5 Res Judicata 353
Chapter 27 Appeal Procedure 356
Section 1 Appeal 356
Section 2 Hearing of Appeal Case 361
Chapter 28 Procedure for Trial Supervision 364
Section 1 Introduction 364
Section 2 Hearing de novo 366
Section 3 About Inspection and Supervision 370
PART SIX NON-LITIGATION PROCEDURE 374
Chapter 29 Special Procedure 374
Section 1 Introduction 374
Section 2 Case of Voting Qualification 377
Section 3 Case of Declaration of Disappearance 378
Section 4 Case of Declaration of Death 379
Section 5 Case of Finding Citizen's Incapacity or Limiting Capacity for Civil Action 381
Section 6 Case of Finding Ownerless Property 383
Chapter 30 Supervising and Urging Procedure 385
Section 1 Introduction 385
Section 2 Payment Order 386
Chapter 31 Procedure of Summon Exhortation by publication 391
Section 1 Introduction 391
Section 2 Hearing 393
Chapter 32 Procedurre of Enterprise Legal Person's Bankruptcy 396
Section 1 Introduction 396
Section 2 Creditors' Conference 399
Section 3 Reorganization 402
Section 4 Composition 405
Section 5 Bankrutptcy Declaration 409
Section 6 Liquidation 412
PART SEVEN EXECUTION PROCEDURE 419
Chapter 33 Introduction to Execution Procedure 419
Section 1 Execution and Execution Procedure 419
Section 2 Quality of Civil Execution Right 420
Section 3 Execution Principles 422
Chapter 34 General Stipulations of Execution Procedure 426
Section 1 Subject and Grounds and Jurisdiction of Execution 426
Section 2 Guarantee for Execution 430
Section 3 Objection to Execution 431
Chapter 35 Measures of Execution 434
Section 1 Measures of Execution to Payment of Property 434
Section 2 Measures of Execution to Behaviour 438
Section 3 Measures of Execution for Safeguard 440
Chapter 36 Process of Execution 443
Section 1 Startup of Execution 443
Section 2 Discontinuance of Execution 447
Section 3 End of Execution 449
Section 4 Transfer of Execution 451
Chapter 37 Discussion on Issues of Execution 453
Section 1 Inheritance of Execution Party 453
Section 2 Composition of Execution 454
Section 3 Concurrent of Executtion 456
Section 4 Participance in Distribution 458
Section 5 Execution of Supervition 460
PART EIGHT CIVIL PROCEDURE INVOLVING HONGKONG MACAO TAIWAN AND FOREIGNERSChapter 38 Civil Procedure Involving Hongkong,Macao and TaiwanSection 1 Civil Action In Hongkong 462
Section 2 Civil Action In Macao 467
Section 3 Civil Action In Taiwan 472
Section 4 Special Procedure of Civil Action Involving Hongkong Maocao Taiwan 476
Chapter 39 Procedure Involving Foreigners 479
Section 1 Introduction 479
Section 2 Principles of civil Action Involving Foreigners 480
Section 3 Jurisdiction of civil Action Involving Foreigners 482
Section 4 Period Service of civil Action Involving Foreigners 485
Section 5 Custody of Property of Civil Action Involving Foreigners 487
Chapter 40 Judicial Assistance 490
Section 1 Introduction 490
Section 2 General Judicial Assistance 491
Section 3 Special Judicial Assistance 494
Section 4 Regional Judicial Assistance 497
Chapter 41 Arbitration Involving Foreigners 499
Section 1 Procedure of Arbitration Involving Foreigners 499
Section 2 Entrance to WTO and Perfection of Procedure of Arbitration Involving Foreigners 508