Private autonomie (English spelling)

Japanese: Privat-autonomie(英語表記)Privatautonomie
Private autonomie (English spelling)

In particular, the concept of autonomy was often used to describe the rights of citizens in what is now called private law, and the freedom of citizens that supports economic activity in capitalist society. Even today in German jurisprudence, the concept of "privat-autonomie" (principle of private autonomy) is used to mean the freedom of private individuals to form legal relationships of their own volition, and the content of this "private autonomy" includes freedom of contract, freedom of ownership, freedom of inheritance (wills), and freedom of association, which is a continuation of this history. Even in the backward and centralized German states, it was believed that proper private or civil law should be based on customary law, case law, and legal profession law, and should be outside the scope of the activities of the legislative power, and that even if it was subject to the legislative power, arbitrary legislation should not be permitted.

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Japanese:

…とくに,今日いうところの私法の領域における市民の権利,資本主義社会の経済活動を支える市民の自由については自律の概念を用いることが少なくなかった。ドイツ法学において今日でも,私人の意思による法的関係形成の自由を意味する語として〈私的自治Privat‐autonomie〉(私的自治の原則)の概念が用いられ,この〈私的自治〉の内容として契約の自由,所有権の自由,相続(遺言)の自由,あるいは団体設立の自由などがあげられるのは,そうした歴史の継承である。後進的で集権的なドイツ諸邦においてさえ,固有の私法ないし民事法は慣習法,判例法,法曹法に基礎づけられるべきものであり,立法権力の活動の範囲外におかれるべきもの,たとえ立法権力に服するにしても恣意的な立法は許されないものと考えられていた。…

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