不同国家有不同的法律,甚至同一国家也常有不同的法律。这一事实导致了一个叫比较法的法学部门的诞生。比较法先驱者虽然自古以来法律就是不相同的,但是从学术上对法律的多样性作持之以恒的研究,却还不到一百年。当然,人们常常对这种多样性偶然产生兴趣,然而对法律的多样性进行系统研究,则始于19世纪60年代。在各种各样的地方法律最终构成学术研究的对象之前,比较法不可能作为一个学问领域 Different countries have different laws, and even the same country often has different laws. This fact led to the birth of a law department called Comparative Law. Although the law pioneers of comparative law have not been the same since ancient times, it is still less than a century since the academic study of the diversity of laws has been carried out. Of course, people occasionally have an interest in this diversity occasionally. However, a systematic study of the diversity of laws began in the 1860s. Until a variety of local laws eventually constituted the subject of academic research, comparative law could not be considered as a field of study