2013年民事法發展回顧

Developments in the Law in 2013: Civil Law

2013年度的最高法院判決見解豐富，代表著最高法院法官在法學方法論個案運用上勇於嘗試且逐漸成熟，在民法釋義學上說理豐富，且引領法學理論之前進，令人佩服。特別是在民法方法論上，最高法院在判決中參考我國學說之見解，說明我國民法第1條法理之補充功能，包括制定法內之法律續造（如類推適用）及制定法外之法律續造（如基於事物本質及公平原則依據法理而創造法律），宣告我國全盤繼受採用德國學者Larenz所創設的法學方法論上三階層法律發現構造論，最受矚目！

The rulings of the Supreme Court contain abundant opinions and insights in year 2013. It represents the Supreme Court becomes mature to apply the legal methodology on the different cases and has the courage to try it. In addition, the reasonings in the civil legal dogmatics are rich enough and through it lead legal theories forward. Especially in the civil legal methodology, after referring our legal theory archive the Supreme Court has declared in their decisions that the Taiwanese Civil Code Section 1 with the function of supplemental feature includes actually the law-making effect within the law (eg analogy applicable) and the one outside of the law to enact through judge-made law continously (such as the nature of things and based on the principle of equity to create a legal basis for things). This opinion has declared that we had adopted a comprehensive, following the creation of the German scholar Karl Larenz, so-called legal discovery of methodology constructed on three levels, which deserves more attention!