中华人民共和国民法通则(英文)

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中华人民共和国民法通则(英文 转载)

GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE CIVIL LAW OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Important Notice: (注意事项)

英文本源自中华人民共和国务院法制局编译, 中国法制出版社出版的《中华人民

共和国涉外法规汇编》(1991年7月版).

当发生歧意时, 应以法律法规颁布单位发布的中文原文为准.

This English document is coming from "LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA GOVERNING FOREIGN-RELATED MATTERS" (1991.7) which is compiled by the Brueau of Legislative Affairs of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, and is published by the China Legal System Publishing House. In case of discrepancy, the original version in Chinese shall prevail.

Whole Document (法规全文)

GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE CIVIL LAW OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (Adopted at the Fourth Session of the Sixth National People's Congress, promulgated by Order No. 37 of the President of the People's Republic of China on April 12, 1986, and effective as of January 1, 1987)

Contents

Chapter I Basic Principles

Chapter II Citizen (Natural Person)

Section 1 Capacity for Civil Rights and Capacity for Civil Conduct

Section 2 Guardianship

Section 3 Declarations of Missing Persons and Death

Section 4 Inpidual Businesses and Lease holding Farm Households

Section 5 Inpidual Partnership

Chapter III Legal Persons

Section 1 General Stipulations

Section 2 Enterprise as Legal Person

Section 3 Official Organ, Institution and Social Organization as Legal Persons

Section 4 Economic Association

Chapter IV Civil Juristic Acts and Agency

Section 1 Civil Juristic Acts

Section 2 Agency

Chapter V Civil Rights

Section 1 Property Ownership and Related Property Rights

Section 2 Creditors' Rights

Section 3 Intellectual Property Rights

Section 4 Personal Rights

Chapter VI Civil Liability

Section 1 General Stipulations

Section 2 Civil Liability for Breach of Contract

英文版

Section 3 Civil Liability for Infringement of Rights

Section 4 Methods of Bearing Civil Liability

Chapter VII Limitation of Action

Chapter VIII Application of Law in Civil Relations with Foreigners

Chapter IX Supplementary Provisions

Chapter I Basic Principles

Article 1

This Law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution and the actual situation in our country, drawing upon our practical experience in civil activities, for the purpose of protecting the lawful civil rights and interests of citizens and legal persons and correctly adjusting civil relations, so as to meet the needs of the developing socialist modernization.

Article 2

The Civil Law of the People's Republic of China shall adjust property relationships and personal relationships between civil subjects with equal status, that is, between citizens, between legal persons and between citizens and legal persons.

Article 3

Parties to a civil activity shall have equal status.

Article 4

In civil activities, the principles of voluntariness, fairness, making compensation for equal value, honesty and credibility shall be observed.

Article 5

The lawful civil rights and interests of citizens and legal persons shall be protected by law; no organization or inpidual may infringe upon them.

Article 6

Civil activities must be in compliance with the law; where there are no relevant provisions in the law, they shall be in compliance with state policies.

Article 7

Civil activities shall have respect for social ethics and shall not harm the public interest, ugogoocial economic order.

Article 8

The law of the People's Republic of China shall apply to civil activities within the People's Republic of China, except as otherwise stipulated by law.

The stipulations of this Law as regards citizens shall apply to foreigners and stateless persons within the People's Republic of China, except as otherwise stipulated by law.

Chapter II Citizen (Natural Person)

Section 1 Capacity for Civil Rights and Capacity for Civil Conduct.

Article 9

A citizen shall have the capacity for civil rights from birth to death and shall enjoy civil rights and assume civil obligations in accordance with the law.

Article 10

All citizens are equal as regards their capacity for civil rights.

Article 11

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A citizen aged 18 or over shall be an adult. He shall have full capacity for civil conduct, may independently engage in civil activities and shall be called a person with full capacity for civil conduct.

A citizen who has reached the age of 16 but not the age of 18 and whose main source of income is his own labour shall be regarded as a person with full capacity for civil conduct.

Article 12

A minor aged 10 or over shall be a person with limited capacity for civil conduct and may engage in civil activities appropriate to his age agogohall be represented by his agent ad litem or participate with the consent of his agent ad litem.

A minor under the age of 10 shall be a person having no capacity for civil conduct agogo agent ad litem.

Article 13

A mentally ill person who is unable to account for his own conduct shall be a person having no capacity for civil conduct agogo agent ad litem.

A mentally ill person who is unable to fully account for his own conduct shall be a person with limited capacity for civil conduct and may engage in civil activities appropriate to his mental health; in other civil activities, he shall be represented by his agent ad litem or participate with the consent of his agent ad litem.

Article 14

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