由于历史原因,澳门地区现行法律制度以葡萄牙法律为基础。自16世纪澳门开埠以来,特别是自葡萄牙人来到澳门并逐步实现准殖民化统治,到《中葡联合声明》明确澳门的回归日期,历经四百多年,澳门法制也经历了传统中华法系与西方大陆法系的冲突、交融最终转型的复杂过程。曾经有学者将澳门法制发展划分为四个阶 Due to historical reasons, the existing legal system in Macao is based on Portuguese law. Since the opening of Macao in the 16th century, especially since the Portuguese came to Macao and gradually achieved the goal of quasi-colonization, the “Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration” set out the date for the return of Macao. After more than 400 years, the legal system in Macao has also gone through the traditional China The conflict between the legal system and the Western civil law system, the complex process of the final transition. There have been scholars who divided the development of legal system in Macao into four steps