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A Study of Legal Practice and Practical Law in the Edo Period

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13620009
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Fundamental law
Research InstitutionNagoya University

Principal Investigator

JIMBO Fumio  Nagoya University, Graduate School of Law, Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (20162828)

Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2003
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
KeywordsTokugawa Shogunate law / legal practice / practical law / case law / law book / Machi-bugyosho (Town Commission Office) / Hyoiosyo (Conference Chamber) / Tomeyaku (Recording Officer) / 近世法 / 法曹法 / 大坂町奉行所 / 京都町奉行所 / 天保改革 / 八田家文書 / 京都町奉行書 / 御仕置裁許帳
Research Abstract

1 In the Edo period, the official justice of the Tokugawa Shognate in fact were Hyojosho Tomeyaku (Recording Officers in the Conference Chamber) and Machi-bugyosho Yoriki (Aides in the Town Commission) under the Bugyo (Commissioners). They were engaged in the legal practice, and ruled mainly by the precedents. They compiled the judicial precedents and edited many practical law books. By gathering and analyzing materials for their routine work, the main results of this study are as follows:
(1)I argued that the legal practice in the Edo period had a system of legal technique and logic, which was not the same as the occidental jurisprudence, but was to be called a kind of "practical law." Such accumulation of empirical technique made it easy to receive the modern occidental law after the Meiji period.
(2)I showed the actual circumstances of the Tokugawa Shogunal litigation system partly according to the judicial statistics of Hyojosho (the Conference Chamber ; civil suits from 1738 to 1787 … More ), Osaka-machibugyosho (Osaka Town Commission office ; civil suits from 1715 to 1727 and punishments from 1711 to 1725), San-bugyosho (Three Commissions Offices ; punishments from 1863 to 1867).
(3)I printed three law books (1)"Hatta-shi shozo koyo shomotsu mokuroku" (The List of the Books for Official Business Owned by Hatta Family), (2)"Osaka oshioki oboegaki" (A Memorandum of the Administration in Osaka), (3)"Oyakusho shoji torihakarai aiaratamarisoro shina oboe" (A Memorandum of Miscellaneous Official Matters Treatment Reformed), they were edited and owned by Hatta Gorozaemon, Osaka-machibugyosho Yoriki (Aide in Osaka Town Commission Office), quite good materials to know what the legal practice and the practical law in the Edo period were. We can recognize the variety of law books that Tokugawa judiciary owned ((1)), the development of the civil procedure in Osaka-machibugyosho, especially the details of the reform in Enkyo 2(1745) ((2) and (3)).
2 I make a plan to progress this study from the viewpoint of the development of "Hosoho" (judiciaries' professional law), which includes case law, legal practice and practical law. Less

Report

(4 results)
  • 2003 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All Other

All Publications (9 results)

  • [Publications] 神保文夫: "(書評)坂本忠久 大坂における『天保改革』政策の立案とその論議"法制史研究. 52. 244-246 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 神保文夫: "(書評)吉田正志「仙台藩金銀出入取捌仕法の崩壊過程」"法制史研究. 53. 247-249 (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 神保文夫: "幕府法曹と法の創造-江戸時代の法実務と実務法学-"國學院大學日本文化研究所紀要. 93. 179-218 (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Jimbo Fumio, (Review) Sakamoto Tadahisa: "Planning and Argument of "Tempo Reform" Policy in Osaka."Hoseishi-kenkyu. Vol.52. 244-246 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Jimbo Fumio, (Review) Yoshida Masashi: "Collapsing Process of the Civil Procedure for Money Suits in Sendai Domain."Hoseishi-kenkyu. Vol.53. 247-249 (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Jimbo Fumio: "Tokugawa Shogunate Judiciary and the Creation of Laws : Legal Practice and Practical Law in the Edo Period."Kokugakuindaigaku Nihonbunkakenkyujo-kiyo. Vol.93. 179-218 (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 神保文夫: "幕府法曹と法の創造-江戸時代の法実務と実務法学-"國學院大學日本文化研究所紀要. 93輯. (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 神保文夫: "(書評)吉田正志「仙台藩金銀出入取捌仕法の崩壊過程(一・二・三完)」"法制史研究. 53号. (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 神保 文夫: "坂本忠久「大坂における 天保改革 政策の立案とその論議」"法制史研究. 52号. (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report

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