【Title】Opinions (I) of the Supreme People's Court on the Application of the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
【Document No.】
【Promulgation Date】1992-07-14
【Effective Date】1992-07-14
【Repealed Date】
【Promulgation Body】The Supreme People's Court
【Status】
【Status Description】
 

【Full Text】

   
     
 

We put forward the following opinion according to the regulations of the Civil Procedure Law and the practical judicial experience for all levels of people's court to execute in the judicial work in order to apply the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the Civil Procedure Law) correctly.  

I. Jurisdiction
1. The major case concerning foreign interests stipulated in Paragraph 1 Article 19 of the Civil Procedure Law refers to the case concerning foreign interests with a huge amount of the disputed subject, or with intricate facts of a case or involving numerous litigants inhabiting at abroad. 
2. The patent controversy is controlled over by the intermediate people's court determined by the Supreme People's Court.  The maritime case and maritime trade case are controlled over by the maritime court. 
3. The superior people's courts in all provinces, autonomous regions and the municipalities directly under the Central Government may go on the regulations of Paragraph 2 Article 19 and Article 20 of the Civil Procedure Law to file the opinion upon the grading jurisdiction of the case of first instance within the areas under their own jurisdiction to submit to the Supreme People's Court for approval according to the situation of the actual facts of case, amount of the object of action and the local influence with combination of the local realities. 
4. The place of domicile of the citizen refers to the place of registered permanent residence of the citizen; the place of domicile of the artificial person refers to the principal place of business of the artificial person or the place where the principal business office is situated. 
5. The habitual residence of the citizen refers to the place inhabited by the citizen for above one year after he leaves his place of domicile till the lawsuit except for the place for the citizen's hospitalization. 
6. One party of the defendants being written off his permanent residence in city or town shall be controlled over according to the regulation of Article 23 of the Civil Procedure Law.  Both parties of the defendants being written off their permanent residences in cities and towns shall be controlled over by the people's court in their place of abode. 
7. The litigant not settling to another place after changing the household and with habitual residence shall be controlled over by the people's court in his habitual residence.  The litigant whose household register changed for less than one year without habitual residence shall be controlled over by the people's court in his former place of domicile.  The litigant whose household register changed for more than one year without habitual residence shall be controlled over by the people's court in his place of abode.
8. The litigants of both parties having been put into jail or having served reform-through-labor shall be controlled over by the people's court in his former place of domicile.  The defendant having been put into jail or having served reform-through-labor for more than one year shall be controlled over by the people's court of the locality of the jail or the locality of the organization for reeducation-through-labor. 
9. The case for recovery of maintenance expenses whose several defendants of not inhabiting in the same area of jurisdiction may be controlled over by the people's court in the place of domicile of the plaintiff. 
10. The case in which the litigant refusing to comply with the named guardianship or case on alteration of guardianship shall be controlled over by the people's court in the place of domicile of the person under guardianship. 
11. The divorce action filed by the non-serviceman against the serviceman shall be controlled over by the people's court in the place of domicile of the plaintiff if the serviceman is not a civil serviceman. 
The divorce action involving servicemen of both parties shall be controlled over by the people's court in the place of domicile of the defendant or the unit above the level of regiment of the defendant. 
12. The divorce case in which one party leaves the place of domicile for more than one year and the other party files a lawsuit for divorce shall be controlled over by the people's court in the place of domicile of the plaintiff.  The divorce case in which the couple leaves the place of domicile for more than one year shall be controlled over by people's court in the habitual residence of the defendant.  The divorce case in which the couple has no habitual residence shall be controlled over by people's court in the place of abode of the plaintiff in the date of prosecution. 
13. In the event that the court in the nation of residence for the overseas Chinese who marries at home and inhabits at abroad refuses to accept the divorce action in the excuse that the divorce action shall be controlled over by the court in the place where a marriage is registered and that the litigants file the divorce action with the people's court, then the divorce case shall be controlled over by people's court in the place where a marriage is registered or the domestic people's court in the final residence of one party. 
14. In the event that the court in the nation of residence for the overseas Chinese who marries at home and inhabits at abroad refuses to accept the divorce action in the excuse that the divorce action shall be controlled over by the court in the state of nationality and that the litigants file the divorce action with the people's court, then the divorce case shall be controlled over by people's court in the original place of domicile or the final domestic residence of one party. 
15. The people's court in the place of domicile of the party inhabiting at home may control over the divorce action in which one party of Chinese citizens is living at broad and the other party is living at home.  In the event that the party living at broad files an action with the court of the state of residence and the party living at home files an action with the people's court, then the people's court that accepts the case is entitled to control over the divorce case.
16. The divorce action in which both parties of Chinese citizens are at abroad but not settling down at abroad and one party files an action with the people's court shall be controlled over by people's court in the original place of domicile of the plaintiff or the defendant. 
17.  The lawsuit filed by the partnership joint venture formed by the citizens without any administrative body shall be controlled over by people's court of the place of registration of the defendant.  The lawsuit in which the joint venture has no place of registration and several defendants are not in the same area of jurisdiction may be controlled over by people's courts of the defendants' places of domicile. 
18. The lawsuit upon the contractual dispute shall be controlled over by people's court in the place of domicile of the defendant in the event that the contract has not been implemented actually and the places of domicile for both parties are not in the place of performance of the contract agreed in the contract. 
19. The place of delivery agreed by both parties of the sales agreement shall be deemed as the loci solutionis.  In the event that both parties have not agreed on the place of delivery, then the loci solutionis may be determined as per the delivery term.  The place for delivery of goods shall be deemed as the loci solutionis in the means of goods delivery.  The place where delivery of goods is taken shall be deemed as the loci solutionis in the means of self-picking up the goods.  The place where the goods are dispatched shall be deemed as the loci solutionis in the means of goods delivery of the agency for consignment for shipment or in the delivery term of the timber and coal. 
The actual loci solutionis for the sales agreement shall be deemed as the loci solutionis if there is discrepancy between the actual loci solutionis for the sales agreement and the place of delivery agreed in the contract.
20. The place of actual processing for the processing contract shall be deemed as the loci solutionis except for otherwise agreed in the contract.
21. The use place of the leased articles in the property leasing contract and the contract for financial leasing shall be deemed as the loci solutionis except for otherwise agreed in the contract. 
22. The principal place for performance of obligation of the party accepting the investment involved in the contract for compensation trade shall be deemed as the loci solutionis. 
23. The agreement in the written contract stipulated in Article 25 of the Civil Procedural Law refers to clause of agreement on election of forum or the agreement on the jurisdiction selection achieved by both parties before the lawsuit. 
24. The jurisdiction in case of the ambiguous agreement on the jurisdiction selected by both parties of the contract or more than two people's courts are stipulated for the jurisdiction in Article 25 of the Civil Procedural Law with void agreement on the election of forum shall be determined according to the regulations of Article 24 of the Civil Procedural Law.  
25. The lawsuit over the insurance contract dispute shall be controlled over by people's court in the place of domicile of the plaintiffs or the register place of the means of transport, the shipping destination and the occurring spot of insured event in case the subject matter insured cover the means of transport or the goods under transportation. 
26. The place of payment on commercial instrument stipulated in Article 27 of the Civil Procedural Law refers to the place of disbursement stated in the commercial instrument.  The place of domicile or business location of the drawee including the payer by proxy shall be deemed as the place of payment on commercial instrument if the commercial instrument has not stated the place of disbursement. 
27. The creditor's application for pay warrant applicable for Article 22 of the Civil Procedural Law shall be controlled over by the basic-level people's court in the place of domicile of the debtor.
28. The place of a tortious act stipulated in Article 29 of the Civil Procedural Law covers the enforcing place of the tortious act and the occurring place of the tortious consequence.  
29. The people's courts in the product manufacturing place, the marketing place of products, place of a tortious act and the place of domicile of the defendant are all entitled to control over the lawsuit filed for causing other's properties and personal injury due to the unqualified products. 
30. The tortious dispute relating to the rail transport contract and rail transport shall be controlled over by the railroad transportation court. 
31. The litigant shall apply to the people's court in the place where the property is situated for the property preservation before the institution of an action.
After the people's court has adopted property preservation before the institution of an action, the litigant may file an action to the people's court adopting the property preservation before the institution of an action or other people's court with jurisdiction. 
32. The litigant fails to file an action within the statutory period after the application for the property preservation before the institution of an action, which causes the property loss to the party against whom an application is filed, then this lawsuit shall be controlled over by the people's court adopting the attachment of property preservation before the institution of an action. 
33. Once there are not less than two people's courts having jurisdiction over the action, the people's court first placing it into file shall not transfer the case to the other people's court with jurisdiction.  The people's court shall not repeat to put the case into file if discovering other people's court with jurisdiction has put it into file prior to it.  In case of discovering other people's court with jurisdiction has put it into file prior to it, the people's court shall rule to transfer the case to the people's court, which has put it into file prior to it. 
34. After accepting the case, the jurisdiction of the court accepting the case shall not be affected by the alteration of the place of domiciles and habitual residences of the litigants. 
35. After accepting the case, the people's court with jurisdiction shall not transfer the case to the other people's court with jurisdiction in the excuse of the alteration of the administrative areas.  The appealed case after judgment and the case reviewed as per the procedure for trial supervision shall be handled by the higher people's court of the people's court of first trial.  The case remanded by the people's court of second instance for retrial or the case ordered by the higher people's court for retrial shall be reheard or retried by the people's court of first trial.
36. As per the regulations of Paragraph 2 Article 37 of the Civil Procedure Law, when two people's court in dispute over jurisdiction submit to their common higher people court for designating the jurisdiction after failing in discussion, the intermediate of the prefecture or municipality shall designate the jurisdiction in case both courts are the basic-level people's court in the same prefecture or municipality.  The superior people's court in the same province, autonomous region or the municipality directly under the Central Government shall designate the jurisdiction in case both courts are in the same province, autonomous region or the municipality directly under the Central Government.  In the event that both courts are the people's courts in different provinces, autonomous regions or the municipalities directly under the Central Government and the superior people's courts of the two provinces, autonomous regions or the municipalities directly under the Central Governments fail in discussion the matter, then the Supreme People's Court shall designate the jurisdiction in time. 
The application for submitting the higher people's court for jurisdiction designation as per the above-said regulations shall be done from lower people's court to the highest people's court.  
37. The higher people's court for jurisdiction designation as per Article 37 of the Civil Procedure Law shall inform in writing the people's court filing the application and the people's court designated.  After receiving the notice, the people's court filing the application shall inform the litigants in time. 

II. Participants in civil proceedings
38. The chief in charge of the body corporate is the legal representative of the body corporate.  The body corporate without the chief in charge shall appoint the vice-chief in charge to act as the legal representative.  The chairman of board for the body corporate with the board of directors shall act as the legal representative.  The director in charge appointed by the board of directors of the body corporate without the chairman of board shall act as the legal representative of the board of directors. 
The chief directors of the other organization without the corporate capacity shall act as the legal representatives
39. The lawsuit filed by the original legal representative will take effect only after the people's court has presented the identity papers of the new legal representative. 
The provision of this article is applicable for the lawsuits participated by other organizations.
40. Other organizations stipulated in Article 49 of the Civil Procedure Law refers to the organizations legally incorporated with the organic institutes and properties without the corporate capacity including the following organizations:
(1) The sole proprietorship enterprises and partnership organizations lawfully registered with the business licenses;
(2) The partnership associations lawfully registered with the business licenses;
(3) Sino-foreign cooperative joint ventures and foreign-funded enterprises lawfully registered with the business licenses in this country;
(4) The social organizations having received the certificates of registration of social organizations approved by the departments of civil affairs;
(5) The subsidiaries set up by the body corporate and having received the business licenses;
(6) The subsidiaries set up by the People's Bank of China and all professional banks;
(7) The subsidiaries set up by the People's Insurance Company of China all over the country;
(8) The township enterprises, neighborhood enterprises and village-run enterprises approved to register for the business licenses;
(9) Other organizations in line with the requirements stipulated in this Article. 
41. The artificial persons for the subsidiaries set up by the body corporate illegally or set up legally without drawing business licenses shall be deemed as the litigants for the subsidiaries;
42. The body corporate or the other organizations shall be deemed as the litigants for the lawsuit filed by their working staff for the duty acts or act of authorizing. 
43. In the lawsuits for the individual business, personal partnership or privately-owned enterprises relying on the collective enterprises and engaging in the productive and operating activities, the individual business, personal partnership, privately-owned enterprises and the collective enterprises on which they reply shall be deemed as the coparties. 
44. The people's court shall rule to suspend the lawsuit in which one litigant dies with heir.  The people's court shall inform the heir timely to act as the litigant for the lawsuit and the judicial act proceeded by the ancestor is effective to his heir carrying on the lawsuit.
45. The individual businesses, households under contracted management in the country and the organizations in partnership shall act as the litigants when their working staff cause any detriment to others in the productive and operating activities stipulated by the employment contracts.
46. In the judicial lawsuit, the employers registered on the business licenses for the individual businesses shall act as the litigants.  If the individual businesses have the shop names, the registered names shall be stated in the legal papers. 
In case the discrepancy of the employers registered on the business licenses and the real business operators, then the employers registered on the business licenses and the real business operators shall act as coparties.
47. All partners in the individual partnership organizations shall be deemed as the coparties.  If the organizations in partnership have the shop names registered according to law, the registered names shall be stated in the legal papers.  All partners may elect their representatives who shall be presented with paper of election by all partners. 
48. If the litigant over the dispute refusing to comply with the arbitration of the arbitral agency or the mediation of the people's mediation commission and filing an action with the people's court, then the opposing party shall be deemed as the defendant. 
49. The personnel held direct responsibility of the body corporate or other organizations conducting civil activities in names of the body corporate or other organizations shall register but fail to, or other people conducting civil activities in names of the body corporate or other organizations, or the body corporate or other organizations conducting civil activities in names of the body corporate or other organizations after having been terminated according to law shall be deemed as the litigants.
50. In the dispute resulting from the civil activities before the amalgamation of the merged business entities, the merged entities shall be deemed as the litigants.  In the dispute resulting from the civil activities before the split of the split business entities, the split entities shall be deemed as the litigants.
51. The business entities being rescinded without liquidation but with liquidating organizations, the liquidating organizations shall be deemed as the litigants.  The business entities being rescinded without liquidating organizations, the organizations making the decision of the rescinding shall deemed as the litigants.
52. The lending units and borrower of the business letters of introduction, special seal for contractual uses, the blank written contract stamped or the bank accounts shall be deemed as the coparties.
53. For the lawsuit of the dispute over the contract of guaranty in which the creditor claims for rights to the surety and the warrantee, the people's court shall list the surety and the warrantee as the codefendants.  In case the creditor claims for rights only to the surety, the people's court shall ask the surety to bear the joint and several liabilities agreed by the contract of guaranty and inform the warrantee to participate in the lawsuit as the codefendant.  In case the creditor claims for rights only to the warrantee, the people's court shall only deem the warrantee as the defendant. 
54. The people's court shall inform other heirs to participate in the lawsuit as the plaintiffs in the lawsuit for the heritage inheritance in which only a part of the heirs file the lawsuit.  The people's court shall deem the informed heirs as the coplaintiffs who are reluctant to participate in the lawsuit and do not expressively renounce their substantive rights. 
55. The principal and the proxy bearing the joint and several liabilities shall be deemed as the colitigators. 
56. Other co-owners for the community properties infringed shall be deemed as the colitigators when only some co-owners file the lawsuit.
57. According to the provisions of Article 119 of the Civil Procedure Law, the people's court shall inform the litigants to participate in the lawsuit who shall but does not and the litigants may also apply to the people's court for supplementation.  The people's court shall examine the litigants' application and deny the unreasonable application and for the reasonable application, inform the supplemented litigants to participate in the lawsuit in writing.
58. The people's court shall inform other litigants upon supplementing the litigants as the colitigators.  The people's court may not supplement the plaintiffs who expressively renounce their substantive rights and supplement those reluctant to participate in the lawsuit and not renouncing their substantive rights as the coplaintiffs whose not participation will not affect the people's court's handling and judgment of the case according to law.
59. One party with numerous litigants stipulated by Article 54 and Article 55 of the Civil Procedure Law generally refers to more than ten people.
60. All litigants of one party with numerous litigants may elect a common representative for the appeal and some of the litigants of such party may elect their own representatives according to Article 54 of the Civil Procedure Law.  The litigants failing in election may participate in the lawsuit themselves in the necessary colitigation and may appeal respectively in the ordinary colitigation. 
61. The litigants of one party with numerous litigants stipulated shall elect the representative for the appeal according to Article 55 of the Civil Procedure Law.  If failing in election, the people's court may nominate the candidate and discuss with the litigant, if failing in discussion, the people's court may appoint the representative from the litigants of appeal. 
62. The representatives shall be two to five people as stipulated by Article 54 and Article 55 of the Civil Procedure Law, and each of them may authorize one or two people as the process attorneys. 
63. The people's court may issue announcement to inform the obligees involved in the cases accepted as per the provisions of Article 55 of the Civil Procedure Law to register in the people's court.  The duration of publication may be determined as per the specific cases, less than thirty days at least.
 

64. The litigants registering in the people's court in accordance with the provisions of Article 55 of the Civil Procedure Law shall testify their legal relations with the opposing party and the detriment suffered.  If failing in testifying, the litigants shall not be allowed to register and the litigants may file another appeals.  The adjudication of the people's court shall be executed within the scope of the registered subject matter.  The rights owners not participating in the registration proceedings within the period of the limitation of time but the people's court takes cognizance of the application, the ruling for such application shall be applicable to the court verdict and ruling having been made by the people's court. 
65. A third party with independent right to petition is entitled to institute a proceeding, state the facts and grounds as one of the litigants in accordance with the provisions of Article 56 of the Civil Procedure Law.  A third party without independent right to petition may apply or be asked by the people's court to participate in the lawsuit. 
66. In an action, the third person without independent right to petition still has the rights and obligations of those of any litigant and any the third person without independent right to petition and has to bear the civil consequence of a judgment is entitled to appeal.  However such third person has no right to object to the jurisdiction of the case in the first instance and has not right to abandon and change his claim or apply to withdraw his appeal. 
67. During a lawsuit, the guardian for the person of no capacity for civil conduct or the person with limited civil capacity is his legal guardian.  The personnel with qualifications of guardianship may determine by negotiations the guardian for such person who had no guardian before.  In case of failing in negotiations, the people's court shall designate one of them as the legal guardian in the lawsuit.  The people's court may designate the organization concerned stipulated in Paragraph 4 Article 16 or Paragraph 3 Article 17 of the Civil Procedure Law as the legal guardian during the lawsuit of the such litigant without guardian stipulated in Paragraph 1 and 2 Article 16 or Paragraph 1 Article 17 of the Civil Procedure Law. 
68. In addition to the attorney, kinsfolk of the litigant, the relative social group and the personnel recommended by the employing unit of the litigant, and the litigant may also authorize other citizens as his lawful guardian.   Nevertheless, the person of no capacity for civil conduct, the person with limited civil capacity or the person who may impair the interests of the principal and the person deemed by the people's court to be unsuitable for acting as the lawful guardian shall not be appointed as the lawful guardian. 
69. The litigant shall submit the power of attorney to the people's court before the trial.  The lawful guardian is not entitled to take cognizance, abandon and change the claim, to reconcile, proceed with a counterclaim or appeal for the litigant if the power of attorney only states "general power of attorney" without any detailed authorization.
 
【法规标题】最高人民法院《关于适用〈中华人民共和国民事诉讼法〉若干问题的意见》(附英文)(一)
【发文字号】法发(1992)22号
【颁布日期】1992-07-14
【实施日期】1992-07-14
【失效日期】
【颁布单位】最高人民法院
【时效性】
【时效性说明】
 
 
最高人民法院《关于适用〈中华人民共和国民事诉讼法〉若干问题的意见》(附英文)(一)
 
     
 

 

【Title】Opinions (II) of the Supreme People's Court on the Application of the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
【Document No.】
【Promulgation Date】1992-07-14
【Effective Date】1992-07-14
【Repealed Date】
【Promulgation Body】The Supreme People's Court
【Status】
【Status Description】
 

【Full Text】

   
 

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III. Evidences
70. The people's court shall send more than two clerks to collect and investigate evidences and the investigation documents shall be signed or sealed by the investigators and recorders.
71. The people's court shall present receipts for the evidences provided by the litigants, marking with the names of evidences, receiving time, copies and pages sealed or sealed by the adjudicators or the engrossment clerks. 
72. The evidences shall be exhibited at court for debate and cross-examination of the court.  For the evidences that shall be kept secrete according to law, the people's court may decide whether or not to exhibit such evidences at court according to the specific circumstances and when deeming to exhibit, the people's court shall not exhibit them at the open court. 
73. According to Paragraph 2 Article 64 of the Civil Procedure Law, the evidences in the charge of the people's court to collect and investigate contain:
(1) Those inconvenient for the litigant and his process attorney to collect themselves for the objective reasons;
(2) Those deemed by the people's court necessary to appraise and examine on the spot; and
(3) Other evidences deemed by the people's court to collect by itself. 
74. The litigant is liable to provide evidences for his views in the lawsuit.  However in the following tort actions, the defendant denying the infringing facts raised by the plaintiff shall be responsible for inducing evidences: 
(1) Tort action of patent caused by the patent for invention of the product manufacturing methods;
(2) Tort action concerning the damages caused during high-risk operation;
(3) Action for damages caused by the environmental pollution;
(4) Tort action concerning the collapsing, desquamating and falling of the building or other facilities and the shelved objects and suspender on the building or other facilities on the buildings; 
(5) Tort action concerning the detriment caused by the bred animals; and
(6) In other cases in which the defendant bearing the evidential burden stipulated by the relative laws. 
75. The litigant has not to induce evidences for the following facts: 
(1) One party definitely cognizes the facts of a case and claims stated by the other party;
(2) The well-known facts, natural rules and theorem;
(3) The other facts deducted from the facts stipulated by the law or already known;
(4) The facts determined by the validated court verdict of the people's court; and
(5) The facts proven by the effective notary deed. 
76. The people's court shall specify the litigant unable to induce evidences for the time being to induce within the reasonable time limit according to the specific circumstances.  The litigant difficult to induce evidences within the reasonable time limit shall apply to the people's court for prolonging the time limit prior to the expiry of the set deadline.  The people's court shall determine the prolonged time limit.
77. The testimonial provided by the units concerned to the people's court according to Article 65 of the Civil Procedure Law shall be signed or sealed by the directors in charge of such units stamped with the office seal of the units. 
78. The testimonial in duplicates whose provider refuses to offer the original copy or clues to the original copy, for which there is no other document to testify and both parties refuse to cognize, shall not be used as the grounds for ascertaining the facts. 

IV. Time period and service of process
79. Various periods calculated by day in the civil procedures shall start from the next day according to the provision of Paragraph 2 Article 75 of the Civil Procedure Law. 
80. The period for placing a case on file stipulated in Article 112 of the Civil Procedure Law for the case in which the plaintiff is ordered to supplement for content deficiency of the bill of complaint shall start from the next day of the submission of the supplemented bill of complaint to the people's court.  The period for placing a case on file for the case transferred by the higher people's court to the lower people's court, or the case transferred by the basic-level people's court accepted by the people's tribunal concerned shall start from the next day after the people's court or the people's tribunal receive the bill of complaint. 
81. The service of litigious documents to the body corporate or other organization shall be signed or sealed by the legal representative of the body corporate, the principal directors of the organization.  The service by leaving rejected legal processes at the place of abode is applicable for such person refusing to sign or seal.  
82. The server may state the situations in which the addressee refuses to accept the litigation document, the basic organization concerned or the representative of the employing unit of the litigants and other eyewitnesses are not willing to sign or seal on the returns of service and leave the service of documents at the places of abode of them.  It shall be deemed as the service by doing so. 
83. If the addressee has process attorney, the people's court may serve to the addressee or may serve to his process attorney.  In case the addressee appoints his process attorney to receive the service, the people's court may leave the service of documents at the places of abode of the process attorney. 
84. The mediation paper shall be directly served to the litigants themselves and is unsuitable for leaving rejected legal processes at the place of abode.  The litigant unable to sign for the service with sound reasons may appoint a person to receive the service. 
85. The service mailed shall be attached with the return of service.  In case of the discrepancy of the receiving date marked on the return of the registered letter and that marked on the return of service or the return of service's not mailing back, then the receiving date marked on the return of the registered letter shall be determined as the date of service. 
86. When the people's court authorizes other people's court for the service according to Article 80 of the Civil Procedure Law, the authorized people's court shall present letter of authorization attached with the litigation documents and return of service and take the signing date marked on the return of service as the date of service. 
87. When the litigation documents are delivered by the units concerned, the signing date marked on the return of service shall be deemed as the date of service according to Article 81 and Article 82 of the Civil Procedure Law. 
88. The service by public notice may be posted in the public notice column of the people's court and the original place of domicile of the addressee and may be published on the newspaper.  In case of special requirements for the mode of service by public notice, the people's court shall publicize as per the required means.  The expiry of the public notice shall be deemed as service.
89. The service by public notice for the bill of complaint or the duplicates of the bill of complaint shall state the main points of the complaint or appeal, the deadline for the addressee's defense and the legal consequences of the addressee's failure in defense overdue.  The service by public notice for the formal summons shall state the presenting place, time and the legal consequences of the addressee's failure in present.  The service by public notice for the court verdict or rule in writing shall state the chief contents of the judgment, the service by public notice for the court verdict or rule in writing of first instance shall state the right of appeal, time limit of appeal and the appellant people's court. 
90. The litigant's refusing to sign for the court verdict or rule in writing during the regular sentencing of the people's court shall be deemed as service and state it in the record of rendition of judgment. 

V. Mediation
91. After accepting a case and investigation, the people's court, deeming the case with unambiguous jural relation and clear facts, may directly conduct mediation after getting the permission of the litigants. 
92. The people's court handling the civil cases shall mediate in the principle of voluntariness and legitimacy.  The people's court shall judge the case in time in case one or two parties firmly refuse the mediation. 

The people's court handling the divorce cases shall mediate but shall not mediate for a long-term with no decisive results. 

93. The litigant shall not appeal at court when the people's court is mediating the case.  Under special authorization, the litigant may authorize his proxy to take part in the medication who may sign on the mediation agreement achieved. 
In the event that the litigants of the divorce case are unable to take part in the medication for special circumstances, they shall present written opinion for it except for those cannot express their wills. 

94. The divorce case of the persons with no capacity for civil conduct shall be prosecuted by their legal proxies.  The people's court may prepare the court verdict as per the agreement contents achieved by the legal proxies and the opposing party. 
95. The mediation paper shall not come into legal effect in case one party refuses to sign for it and the people's court shall inform the opposing party in time. 
96. In case the mediation paper is unable to serve both parties at court, the signing date of the litigants' receipt of the mediation paper shall be deemed as the effective date of the mediation paper. 
97. For the case in which the third person without dependent right to petition participates in the lawsuit, the people's court shall get the permission of the third person upon determining him to bear the obligations during the mediation, and shall serve the mediation paper to the third person simultaneously.  The people's court shall judge the case in time if the third person goes back on his words before the arrival of the mediation paper.
 
【法规标题】最高人民法院《关于适用〈中华人民共和国民事诉讼法〉若干问题的意见》(附英文)(二)
【发文字号】法发(1992)22号
【颁布日期】1992-07-14
【实施日期】1992-07-14
【失效日期】
【颁布单位】最高人民法院
【时效性】
【时效性说明】
 
 
最高人民法院《关于适用〈中华人民共和国民事诉讼法〉若干问题的意见》(附英文)(二)
 
   
 
Title】Opinions (III) of the Supreme People's Court on the Application of the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
【Document No.】
【Promulgation Date】1992-07-14
【Effective Date】1992-07-14
【Repealed Date】
【Promulgation Body】The Supreme People's Court
【Status】
【Status Description】
 

【Full Text】

   
 

Isinolaw Reference ID: 120-19922235

 
 

VI. Property preservation and enforcement in advance
98. Upon adopting property preservation before the institution of an action and property preservation in litigation, the people's court shall order the applicant to provide warranty according to the provisions of Article 92 and Article 93 of the Civil Procedure Law.  The amount of the warranty provided shall be tantamount to the amount asked for preservation. 
99. The people's court may order the litigants to timely dispose of the seasonal commodities, fresh and live commodities, perishable articles and other articles unsuitable for long-term storage upon adopting property preservation of these articles before the institution of an action.  If necessary, the people's court may sell of these articles to preserve the cost. 
100. The people's court shall properly preserve the properties being sequestered and detained upon adopting sequestration and distraint in the property preservation.  The litigants, units or individuals concerned in charge of keeping the properties and the people's court shall not use the properties. 
101. Upon property preservation of the immovable properties and special movable estate such as vehicles and ships, etc., the people's court may adopt the measures of property preservation by seizing the certificates of property right concerned and informing the corresponding organizations for title registration of title not to accept the transfer formalities of the seized property.  In necessary, the people's court may sequester or seize the property. 
102. The people's court may take protective measure for the estate under mortgage and the lien, while the mortgagee and the lienor have the priority of compensation. 
103. Before the people's court of second instance accepting the case submitted, if the litigants of the case refuse to comply with the first-instance judgment as to transferring, concealing, selling or destroying the properties, the people's court of first instance shall take protective measure upon the application of the litigants or according to its authorization.  The verdict of the people's court of first instance concerning the property preservation shall be sent to the people's court of second instance. 
104. The people's court may take protective measure for the earnings due to the creditor to limit the money drawing and inform the units concerned to assist the enforcement. 
105. In the event that the properties of the debtor may not satisfy the request for property preservation but the debtor has the mature credit to the third party, the people's court may judge the third party not to pay off the debtor in this case according to the application of the creditor.  The people's court may submit the articles of property or cost to the third party asking for reimbursement.  
106. The people's court shall take the enforcement in advance stipulated by the Civil Procedure Law before making the final sentence after accepting the case.  The enforcement in advance shall be limited into the range requested by the litigants' claim and limit within the urgent needs for the litigants' lives, production and management. 
107. The emergency stipulated by Paragraph 3 Article 97 of the Civil Procedure Law contains the following situations: 
(1) Calling for ceasing the infringement and removing the hindrance immediately;
(2) Calling for suppressing a certain acts immediately;
(3) Calling for restituting the payment to purchase the raw materials of production and means of production immediately; and
(4) Recoursing the insurance indemnities urgently needed for the production resuming and management. 
108. After the people's court judges to take protective measure, no unit may rescind the protective measure within the period of property preservation except that the people's court making the property preservation ruling disbands it and other higher people's courts decide to disband. 
109. The validity of the ruling for property preservation in the lawsuit shall last till the enforcement of the validated legal papers.  In the course of litigation, the people's court shall make timely ruling to disband the protective measures when it's necessary to disband. 
110. The people's court shall timely investigate the application for reconsideration of the litigant refusing to comply with the ruling in writing of property preservation and enforcement in advance.  In the event that the ruling is right, the people's court shall deny the litigant's application and in the event that the ruling is wrong, the people's court shall make new ruling to amend or rescind the original ruling. 
111. After the enforcement in advance judged by the people's court, the applicant shall restitute the earnings gained from the enforcement in advance for the validated judgment as per the provision of Article 214 of the Civil Procedure Law. 

VII. Compulsory measure against the disruption of civil proceedings
112. The defendant must appear at court stipulated in Article 100 of the Civil Procedure Law refers to the defendant with the obligations of support for his parents, fostering and maintenance and whose failure in appear may make it impossible for ascertain the facts of a case. 
The legal proxy of the infant causing detriment to the state, collective or other people shall appear at count but refuse to after twice formal summons without any sound reason, the people's court may summon him by force. 
113. The summoning by force shall be conducted with bench warrant and sent directly to the person summoned to court with force.  Before the summoning by force, the people's court shall explain the consequence of refusing to present and summon such person by force if he still refuses to present after criticism and education. 
114.  The people's court shall get the approval of its president to take action of summoning by force to the non-judicial participants and other people according to Article 101 and Article 102 of the Civil Procedure Law and then prepare the paper of decision of detention.  The bailiff shall transfer the detainee to the local public security organization for surveillance. 
115. The people's court shall send personnel to the people's court in the locality of the detainee not in the same area of jurisdiction to assist in the enforcement.  The authorized people's court shall send personnel to assist in the enforcement.  In the event that the detainee apples for reconsideration or admits and corrects his faults during the detention, the authorized people's court shall transfer or propose to disband the detention in advance to the authorizing people's court for it to investigate and decide. 
116. The emergency of resisting the performance of official business in the ways of bursting and striking the court in violence and intimidation calling for detention measure, the people's court shall report to its president for supplementing the approval formality after detaining the offenders.  The people's court shall disband the detention in the event that the president thinks it's improper to detain. 
117. The detainee repenting during the detention may be ordered to make a statement of repentance and relieved for detention before the due date.  The president shall approve the relief for detention before the due date with the written decision on relief for detention before the due date and send it to the public security organization for surveillance to execute. 
118. The statutory penalty and detention stipulated in Article 101 and Article 102 of the Civil Procedure Law may be separately applied and may be applied as a whole. 
119. The statutory penalty and detention shall not be applied continuously for the same disruption of civil proceeding.  However the people's court may impose new statutory penalty and detention for the new disruption of civil proceeding. 
120. The people's court may enforce the statutory penalty and detention to the unit and individual unlawfully detaining others or unlawfully distressing other's property for recovering the debts according to Article 106 of the Civil Procedure Law.  This practice is applicable for the provision of Article 104 and Article 105 of the Civil Procedure Law. 
121. The higher people's court shall make decision to the application for reconsideration within five days of receiving it filed by the fined and the detainee refusing to comply with the statutory penalty and detention and inform the reconsideration result to the lower people's court and the litigants.
122. Upon reconsideration, the higher people's court thinking the compulsory measures improper shall prepare written decision to rescind or amend the decision of the lower people's court upon statutory penalty and detention.  In time of emergency, it may issue the written decision within three days after the oral notice. 
123. The litigant with one of the following circumstances may be handled as per the provision of Item 6 Paragraph 1 Article 102 of the Civil Procedure Law:
(1) The litigant concealing, transferring, selling off and destroying properties after the validation of the legal papers and causing it's impossible for the people's court to execute;
(2) The litigant hampering or resisting the people's court to execute with violence, intimidating and other means; and
(3) The litigant with performance capacity while refusing to execute the validated court verdict and rule in writing, mediation paper and pay warrant of the people's court.  
124. The people's court may handle the unit concerned in one of the following circumstances according to the provision of Article 102 of the Civil Procedure Law:
(1) The unit transferring or releasing the deposit frozen by the people's court without permission;
(2) The unit hampering the judicial staff from querying, freezing and appropriating the bank deposit with violence, intimidating and other means; and
(3) The unit sending news secretly to the litigant, assisting him to transfer and conceal properties after receiving the people's court's notice for assistance in the enforcement. 
125. The trial group for the case shall directly investigate the personnel concerned into criminal penalties according to the provision of Article 101 of the Civil Procedure Law and shall allow the litigant to state or to authorize the pleader to defend him before the judgment. 
126. The criminal division of the people's court shall directly accept and judge the personnel concerned into criminal penalties according to the provision of Item 6 Paragraph 1 Article 102 of the Civil Procedure Law.
127. The people's court shall investigate the personnel concerned into criminal penalties according to the provision of Paragraph 1 to 5 Article 102 and Article 106 of the Civil Procedure Law and the clause of the Criminal Procedural Law. 

VIII. Expenses of proceedings
128.  The expenses of proceedings for the application for property preservation before the institution of an action as per the provision of Article 93 of the Civil Procedure Law shall be paid as per the clause of Paragraph 2 Article 8 of the "Proceeding Charging Measures for the People's Court". 
129. The litigant shall not prepay the court acceptance fee for the case handle as per Article 55 of the Civil Procedure Law and the losing party shall pay for it after the case settled as per the amount of the object of action. 
130. As stipulated in Paragraph 4 Article 55 of the Civil Procedure Law, the obligee not participating the registration applying for enforcement to the people's court shall pay the charge of petition for enforcement according to the clause of Paragraph 1 Article 8 of the "Proceeding Charging Measures for the People's Court".
131. The litigant of the case unaccepted by the people's court shall not pay the expenses of proceedings.  The litigant refusing to comply with the ruling and filing an appeal shall pay the expenses of proceedings as per the clause of Paragraph 3 Article 5s of the "Proceeding Charging Measures for the People's Court".
132. The party petitioning for payment order as per the provision of Article 189 of the Civil Procedure Law shall pay RMB100 application fee for each payment order.  The applicant shall bear the application fee in the event that the proceedings for supervising and urging the clearance of debt are terminated due to the disagreement of the debtors.  The debtors not disagreeing shall bear the application fee. 
133. The creditor filing the other appeal after the termination of the proceedings for supervising and urging the clearance of debt shall pay the legal costs as per the "Proceeding Charging Measures for the People's Court". 
134. The applicant petitioning for public summons for exhortation shall pay RMB100 application fee for each summon as per the provision of Article 193 of the Civil Procedure Law and the applicant shall also bear the application fee and announcement fee. 
135. The party filing an lawsuit with the people's court as per the provision of Article 196 and Article 198 of the Civil Procedure Law shall pay the court acceptance fee as per Paragraph 4 Article 5 of the "Proceeding Charging Measures for the People's Court". 
136. The party applying for bankruptcy liquidation to the people's court as per the provision of Article 199 of the Civil Procedure Law may not pay the court acceptance fee in advance and the costs for bankruptcy proceedings shall be appropriated from the insolvent properties.
137. The litigants for the case of retrial instituted through adjudicatory supervision procedure filed by the people's court according to its competence and the case of retrial instituted through adjudicatory supervision procedure filed by the people's procuratorate shall not pay the expenses of proceedings.
138. The authorized people's court for execution by mandate shall not charge any fee from the authorizing people's court.  The actual expenses in the enforcement shall be charged as per the "Proceeding Charging Measures for the People's Court".
 
【法规标题】最高人民法院《关于适用〈中华人民共和国民事诉讼法〉若干问题的意见》(附英文)(三)
【发文字号】法发(1992)22号
【颁布日期】1992-07-14
【实施日期】1992-07-14
【失效日期】
【颁布单位】最高人民法院
【时效性】
【时效性说明】
 
 
最高人民法院《关于适用〈中华人民共和国民事诉讼法〉若干问题的意见》(附英文)(三)
 
   
 
 
【Title】Opinions (IV) of the Supreme People's Court on the Issues the Application of the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
【Document No.】
【Promulgation Date】1992-07-14
【Effective Date】1992-07-14
【Repealed Date】
【Promulgation Body】The Supreme People's Court
【Status】
【Status Description】
 

【Full Text】

   
 

Isinolaw Reference ID: 120-19922236

 
 

IX. The general procedures of first instance
139. The people's court shall not accept the lawsuit falling short of the requirements for acceptance.  The people's court shall determine to dismiss the lawsuit when discovering the lawsuit falling short of the requirements after acceptance. 
The ruling in writing of denial by the court shall be signed by the judge and engrossment clerk in charge of reviewing the case and putting it into file.  The ruling in writing of dismissal of a lawsuit shall be signed by the judge and engrossment clerk in charge of trying the case. 
140. In the event that the litigants state the words of slander and personal abuse in the bill of indictment and that the service of the duplicates may intensify the dispute and not beneficial for the settlement of the case, then the people's court shall persuade the litigants to revise as per the fact.  In the event that the litigants insist on not revising firmly, the people's court may serve the duplicates of the bill of indictment. 
141. The people's court shall inform the plaintiff of the case for which the same court has no jurisdiction to file a lawsuit to the people's court with jurisdiction.  The people's court shall determine not to accept if the plaintiff insists on suing.   The people's court shall transfer the case to the people's court with jurisdiction if discovering it with no jurisdiction for the case already filed. 
142. The people's court shall accept the case whose plaintiff file a lawsuit for the second time falling in the requirements for suing after unaccepted and denied by the people's court in ruling. 
143. The people's court shall inform the plaintiff to prepay for the court acceptance fee due to him.  For the plaintiff refusing to prepay after the information or not prepaying after his application for reduction, delaying payment and exemption is turned down by the people's court, the people's court shall determine to handle with it as the automatic withdrawing the lawsuit. 
144. The people's court shall accept the second appeal filed by the litigant for the same claim after the litigant has withdrawn the appeal or the people's court handles as withdrawing the appeal. 
The people's court may not accept the divorce case re-appealed by the plaintiff within six months without any new circumstances and new reasons after the plaintiff has withdrawn the appeal or the people's handles as withdrawing the appeal according to the provision of Paragraph 7 Article 111 of the Civil Procedural Law. 
145. In the event that the litigants have entered into the arbitration clauses in the written contract or both parties come to the written arbitration agreement after the occurrence of the dispute and one party files an appeal with the people's court, then the people's court may determine not to accept and inform the plaintiff to apply for arbitration to the arbitral agency according to the provision of Paragraph 2 Article 111 of the Civil Procedural Law except for the invalidity and invalidation of the arbitration clauses or arbitration agreement or ambiguous content making it impossible for enforcement. 
146. In case of the non-existence of the arbitral agency selected by the litigants in the arbitration clauses or arbitration agreement or the chosen items of ruling exceed the power of the arbitral agency, the people's court is entitled to accept the appeal filed by one party according to law. 
147. The civil lawsuit impossible for executing due to invalidity and invalidation of the arbitration clauses or arbitration agreement or ambiguous content is accepted by the people's court, the people's court accepting the case shall render ruling on the jurisdiction if the defendant raises objection to the jurisdiction of the people's court. 
148. If one party has not declared the arbitration agreement upon filing a lawsuit with the people's court, both parties respond to action and defend themselves after the court's acceptance of the appeal, then the people's court shall be deemed with the jurisdiction. 
149. The patient and his family members have no disagreement on the conclusion of the medical negligence drew by the technical evaluation commission of malpractice and only proceed against the medical unit to compensate for the economic losses for the medical malpractice, for this account, the people's court shall accept the proceeding. 
150. The defendants of the divorce case determined by the court not to divorce and both parties making reconciled after mediation and the cases of judging and mediating to maintain the adoptive relation shall not be limited by the requirements stipulated in Paragraph 7 Article 111 of the Civil Procedural Law to file appeals with the people's courts.
151. The people's court shall accept the divorce case in which the whereabouts of one party of the couple is unknown and the other party sues to the people's court only for divorce, not applying to declare the disappearance or death of the party whose whereabouts unknown, and serve the legal papers on the party whose whereabouts unknown through public notice. 
152. In the event that one party files another appeal with new circumstances and new reasons for increasing or decreasing the expenses after the validation of the court verdict for the case of the maintenance, expenses of upbringing and fostering expenses, the people's court shall accept the appeal as a new case. 
153. The people's court shall accept the appeal filed by the litigant after the extinctive prescription.  If ascertaining the litigant has no causes in fact for the suspension, interruption and prolonging, the people's court shall judge to deny the claim. 
154. Business secret mentioned in Article 66 and Article 120 of the Civil Procedural Law chiefly refers to the technical secret, business intelligence and information, etc., such as the industrial and business secrets that the litigant is reluctant to publicize such as the manufacturing processing, formula, trading contact and sale channel, etc.
155. Upon handling case in general procedures, the people's court shall summon the litigants with subpoena three days prior to the trial and inform the process attorney, witness, expert examiner, on-site examiner and interpreter with advice notes.  The litigant or other litigant participants in other places shall be left enough time for travelling.
156. After the acceptance of the case and before the end of the court debate, the people's court shall handle the increased claims of the plaintiff, the countersuit of the defendant and the claims of the third party relating to this case in combination. 
157. The statutory agent of the litigant in the divorce action filed by the person of no civil disposition capacity shall present; in case of the statutory agent's failure in presenting, the people's court shall rule according to law on the basis of the facts ascertained. 
158. In case the statutory agent of the litigant of no civil disposition capacity refusing to appear at court without reasonable ground after being summoned by the subpoena, if the proxy is of the plaintiff, the people's court may handle the case as withdrawn according to the provision of Article 129 of the Civil Procedural Law.  If the proxy is of the defendant, the people's court may handle the case as default judgement according to the provision of Article 130 of the Civil Procedural Law.
159.  The people's court may handle the third party with independent right of claim as withdrawn according to the provision of Article 129 of the Civil Procedural Law if the third party refuses to present without reasonable ground or midway withdraws from the court session without the permission of the court. 
160. If the plaintiff withdraws his appeal after the third party with independent right of claim participates in the lawsuit, the people's court may permit the plaintiff to withdraw his appeal and deem the third party with independent right of claim as the plaintiff of the separate case, and the plaintiff and defendant of the original case as the defendants of the separate case to proceed the lawsuit. 
161. In the event that the litigant has to be punished for his illegal acts in the case which may be handled as withdrawal according to law or when the litigant applies for withdrawing his appeal, the people's court may deny the withdrawal or handled the case not as per the withdrawal. 
162. The third party without independent right of claim will not affect the case handling by refusing to appear at court without reasonable ground after being summoned by the subpoena or midway withdraws from the court session without the permission of the court.  The third party without independent right of claim judged to bear the civil liability by the people's court is entitled to proceed with an appeal. 
163. When the people's court of first trial discovers errors in the judgment after pronouncement of first-instance judgment and the litigant proceeds with an appeal within the appellate period, the people's court of first trial may report the opinion on the wrong judgment of first trial to the people's court of second instance for its handling as per the procedure of second instance.  In case of the litigant's not appeal, the people's court of second instance may handle the case as per the procedure of trial supervision. 
164. The time limit for concluding a trial stipulated in Article 135 of the Civil Procedural Law refers to the period from the next day of filing the case to the date of service of the judgement and mediation paper excluding the period of the jurisdictional dispute between the litigant filing the disagreement over the jurisdiction and the people's court handling the case. 
165. If the judgment of first trial and the ruling that may be appealed cannot be served on the both parties simultaneously, the appellate period shall start from the next day of receiving the judgment and ruling in writing respectively. 
166. The clerical error mentioned in Item 7 Paragraph 1 Article 140 of the Civil Procedural Law refers to the miswriting and miscalculating of the legal papers, the miss in writing, miscalculating of the court costs and other clerical errors. 
167. The original ruling may not necessarily be reversed when the causes for suspending the lawsuit disappear and the proceedings are resumed.  The ruling to suspend the lawsuit will come void immediately after the people's court's notice or the permission on the both parties to continue with the lawsuit. 

X. Summary procedure
168. The "clear facts" in the summary civil case stipulated in Article 142 of the Civil Procedural Law refers to that the statements of both parties are basically coincident in the disputed facts and they may provide reliable evidences.  The facts may be ascertained without the people's court's investigating and collecting the evidences.  "With explicit jural relations" refers to the facts that who is the liability bearer and whose is the right sharer with explicate relations.  "Not much controversy" refers to the facts that the litigants have no difference in principle upon the rights and wrongs, liabilities and subject matter of the case. 
169. The case in which the defendant's whereabouts is unknown upon the filing of lawsuit shall not be handled in summary procedure. 
170. The time limit of trials for the case applicable for the summary procedure shall not be prolonged.  In case of discovering the case intricate during the handling, the people's court may turn the summary procedure into general procedure, constitute the collegial bench to handle and inform both parties in time.   The time limit of trials shall start from the next day of putting the case into file. 
171. The case handled in general procedure shall not be handled in summary procedure at all events occurred in the handling process. 
172. The people's court shall inform the contents of indictment to the defendant by word of mouth or in writing for the case applicable for handling in summary procedure, summon the litigants and witnesses by word of mouth or other simple means.  The judge acts as the solely judge and engrossment clerk acts as the recorder instead of recording by the judge handling the case.  For the judgement to settle the case, the judge shall pronounce judgment on the case open as per the provision of Article 134 of the Civil Procedural Law. 
173. The judgment, ruling in writing and mediation paper made by the people's tribunal shall be stamped with the official seal of the basic people's court without substituting the official seal of the basic people's court with the official seal of the people's tribunal. 
174. The case remanded for a new trial and the case retried according to the procedure of trial supervision shall not be handled in summary procedure. 
175. The docile for the case applicable for the summary procedure shall contain the following documents: 
(1) Bill of indictment or transcript of verbal complaint;
(2) Bill of defense or transcript of oral pleadings;
(3) Power of attorney to entrust the other people for the lawsuit;
(4) Indispensable evidences;
(5) Transcript of inquisition of the litigants;
(6) Trial records including mediation records; 
(7) Judgment, ruling in writing and mediation paper, or mediation agreement;
(8) Service and sentencing transcript;
(9) Enforcement information; and
(10) Receipt of the cost of action.

XI. Procedure of second instances
176. Both parties and the third party filing appeals shall all be deemed as the appellants.
177. One or some indispensable parties filing appeals shall be handled as per the following circumstances: 
(1) If the appeal is to present opinion for the rights and obligations between both parities, not relating to the interests of other indispensable parties, then the opposing party shall be deemed as the appellee and the other litigant not filing appeals in the same side shall be listed as per the original status in litigation; 
(2) If the appeal is to present opinion for the rights and obligations among the coparties, not relating to the interests of the litigants of the opposing party, then the other litigant not filing appeals in the same side shall be deemed as the appellee and the opposing party shall be listed as per the original status in litigation; and
(3) If the appeal is to present opinion for the rights and obligations between both parities and among the coparties, then and the other litigant not filing appeals in the same side shall be deemed as the appellee.
178. If the litigant orally expresses his will to appeal upon the pronouncement of first-instance judgment and ruling or the service of the judgment and the ruling in writing, the people's court shall tell him to file the appellate petition within the statutory appellate period.  The litigant failing to submit the appellate petition within the statutory appellate period may be deemed as not appealing. 
179. The statutory agent for the person of no civil disposition capacity and the person with qualified civil capacity may institute the appeal on behalf of his litigant.
180. The people's court of second instance shall correct the errors in the original judgment in addition to those in the appeal claim discovered during the review of the facts and applicable laws of the appeal claim of the appellant according to the provision of Article 151 of the Civil Procedural Law. 
181. In case of discovering the people's court of first trial with one of the circumstances violating the legal proceedings that may affect the correct judgment, the people's court of second instance shall determine to reverse the original judgement and remand the case for a new trial to the people's court of first trial according to the provision of Item 4 Paragraph 1 Article 153 of the Civil Procedural Law:
(1) The judge and engrossment clerk handling this case shall challenge but fail to;
(2) Making judgment without holding court session;
(3) Rendering default judgment with the litigant in the case that shall be subject to the summary procedure not being summoned; and
(4) Other circumstances seriously going against the legal proceedings. 
182. If the people's court of first trial has not judged appeal claims of the litigants filed in the first trial, the people's court of second instance shall mediate according to the principle of the litigants' voluntariness.  In case of failure in mediation, the people's court of second instance shall remand the case for a new trial to the people's court of first trial. 
183. If the litigants shall take part in the lawsuit in the first trial but fail to, the people's court of second instance may carry out mediation according to the principle of the litigants' voluntariness, and remand the case for a new trial to the people's court of first trial in case of failure in mediation.  The written ruling of remanding a case for a new trial shall not state the litigants to be supplemented. 
184. For the plaintiff of the first trial increasing independent appeal claim or the defendant of the first trial filing the countersuit in the procedure of second instance, the people's court of second instance may carry out mediation on the newly increased appeal claim or the countersuit according to the principle of the litigants' voluntariness.  In case of failure in mediation, the people's court of second instance shall inform the litigant to file a lawsuit in a separate case.
185. After case in which the divorce is denied in the first instance judgment, the people's court of second instance shall carry out mediation on the problems of the childcare and property according to the principle of the litigants' voluntariness.  In case of failure in mediation, the people's court of second instance shall remand the case for a new trial to the people's court of first trial.
186. For the case handled in the procedure of second instance, the people's court may judge to reverse the original judgment directly and dismiss the lawsuit when it thinks the case shall not be accepted by the people's court. 
187. Upon ascertaining the ruling of the people's court of first instance not to accept the case wrong, the people's court of second instance shall order the people's court of first instance to file and accept the case at the same time of reversing the original ruling in writing.  Upon ascertaining the ruling of the people's court of first instance to dismiss the lawsuit wrong, the people's court of second instance shall order the people's court of first instance to handle the lawsuit at the same time of reversing the original rule.
188. The people's court of second instance may directly render judgment and ruling on the following cases on appeal according to the provision of Article 152 of the Civil Procedural Law: 
(1) The cases adjudicated not to accept in first trial, dismiss the lawsuit and object to the jurisdiction;
(2) The cases whose litigants' appeal claims are evidently unacceptable;
(3) The cases with clear facts ascertained by the original judgment but with wrong applicable law; and
(4) The cases to be remanded for new trials because the original judgment violates the legal proceedings, which may affect the correct judgment of the case. 
189. The people's court may directly deem the legal person or other organization after the split as the coparties in the procedure of second instance and the legal person or other organization as litigants in split.  The people's court may directly deem the legal person or other organization after amalgamation as the litigants and it is not necessary for the people's court to remand the case for a new trial. 
190. The litigant applying for withdrawing his appeal in the procedure of second trial, the people's court shall not permit him to withdraw his appeal when it thinks the first judgment wrong after review or both parties colluding to impair the interests of the state and the collectives, the public interests and other's legitimate rights. 
191. If both parities come to the reconciliation agreement in second instance, the people's court may investigate the reconciliation agreement and make the mediation paper to serve the parties.  The people's court shall permit the litigants to withdraw the appeals for reconciliation after reviewing the claims in line with the requirements for withdrawing the appeals. 
192. Upon pronouncement of the judgment, the people's court of second instance may pronounce by itself or may entrust the original people's court or the local people's court in the place of domicile of the litigants to pronounce for it.
 
【法规标题】最高人民法院《关于适用〈中华人民共和国民事诉讼法〉若干问题的意见》(附英文)(四)
【发文字号】法发(1992)22号
【颁布日期】1992-07-14
【实施日期】1992-07-14
【失效日期】
【颁布单位】最高人民法院
【时效性】
【时效性说明】
 
 
最高人民法院《关于适用〈中华人民共和国民事诉讼法〉若干问题的意见》(附英文)(四)
 
   
 
 
【Title】Opinions (V) of the Supreme People's Court on the Issues of the Application of the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
【Document No.】
【Promulgation Date】1992-07-14
【Effective Date】1992-07-14
【Repealed Date】
【Promulgation Body】The Supreme People's Court
【Status】
【Status Description】
 

【Full Text】

   
 

Isinolaw Reference ID: 120-19922237

 
 

XII. Special procedure
193. The interested person of the litigant advancing that the litigant suffers mental disease in the lawsuit and asking to declare the person of no civil disposition capacity or with qualified civil capacity shall submit an application with the people's court.  The people's court accepting the application shall handle it in the special procedure and suspend the original lawsuit.
194. For the case for declaring the disappearance or death, the people's court may check up the property of the missing person and designate the administrator during the time periods of the action according to the claims of the applicant.  Upon expiry of the announcement for declaring the disappearance of the missing person, the people's court shall designate the administrator according to the provision of Paragraph 1 Article 21 of the General Principles of the Civil Law.  
195. The people's court may handle the application of the administrator of the missing person designated by the people's court for changing the administration according to the relative provisions of the special procedure of the Civil Procedure Law.  In case of reasonable application, the people's court may judge to rescind the administrator's status of the applicant and designate another administrator at the same time; In case of unreasonable application, the people's court may deny the application.  When other interested persons of the missing person apply for changing the administration, the people's court shall inform the administrator previously designated by the people's court as the defendant and handle the application in general procedure. 
196. After the people's court has judged to declare the disappear of the citizen and the interested persons apply to the people's court for declaring the death of the missing person when the disappearance has lasted for full four years, the people's court shall accept the application.  The judgment to declare the disappearance shall be deemed as the proof of the missing of the citizen and the people's court shall declare as per the provision of Article 168 of the Civil Procedure Law. 
197. For the case of holding properties unclaimed in which someone claims for the property in the duration of public notice, the people's court shall rule to terminate the special procedures and inform the applicant to file a separate appeal that is to be handled in the general procedure. 
198. The guardian designated refusing to comply with the designation shall file an appeal with the people's court within thirty days from the next day of receiving the notice.  The people's court shall deny the appeal if deeming the designation proper after review.  The people's court shall rule to rescind the designation if deeming the designation improper and designate another person as the guardian.  The court verdict shall be served to the indicter, the original designating unit and the guardian designated by the verdict. 

XIII. Procedure for trial supervision
199. The presidents of all levels of people's courts discovering the validated judgments and rulings of their courts wrong shall rule to suspend the enforcement of the original judgements and rules for the retrial determined by the discussion of the judicial committee. 
200. The Supreme People's Court discovering the validated judgments and rulings of all levels of people's courts wrong and the higher people's courts discovering the validated judgments and rulings of the lower people's courts wrong shall, in the ruling for review or ordering the lower people's court to retry, state suspension of the enforcement of the original judgments and rulings.  In case of emergency, they may inform the executive people's court orally of the ruling of suspending the enforcement but they shall issue the ruling in writing within ten days of the oral notice. 
201. The people's court for the retrial and review of the cases determined to retry or review according to the procedure for trial supervision shall determine whether to reverse, amend or maintain the original judgments and rulings in the new judgment and ruling in writing.  In case of coming to the mediation agreement and after the service of the mediation paper, the original judgments and rulings shall be deemed to rescind. 
202. For the cases to be judged and ruled by the people's court of second instance, if the higher people's court needs to instruct retrial, it shall instruct the people's court of second instance to retry the cases. 
203. The statutory agent for the person of no civil disposition capacity and the person with qualified civil capacity may institute the appeal on behalf of his litigant for retrial. 
204. The litigant shall put forward the application for retrial of the validated mediation paper within two years after the validation of the mediation paper as per the provision of Article 182 of the Civil Procedure Law.
205. The litigant may apply to the people's court of original trial for retrial or may apply to the higher people's court for retrial.  In case of applying to the higher people's court for retrial, the higher people's court may order the lower people's court to retry the case or may review by itself if deeming the application for trial in line with the requirements of Article 179 of the Civil Procedure Law. 
206. After receiving the litigant's application for trial, the people's court shall examine the original case and shall rule to suspend the enforcement of the original judgment after placing the case on file if thinking the application in line with the requirements of Article 179 of the Civil Procedure Law and inform both parties in time.  The people's court may deny the application in written notice if thinking the application out of line with the requirements of Article 179 of the Civil Procedure Law. 
207. The litigant involved in the cases handled as per the proceedings for supervising and urging the clearance of debt, procedures of public summons for exhortation and enterprise' bankruptcy liquidating procedures and the cases judged to maintain the original judgment after retrial according to the procedure for trial supervision shall not apply for retrial. 
208. The litigant may apply for retrial of the ruling to deny and dismiss the appeal. 
209. If the problem of partition in the divorce case applied by the litigant for retrial is relative to the property divided in the judgment, the people's court shall examine it as per the provision of Article 179 of the Civil Procedure Law and put the appeal on file in line with the requirements for retrial.  If the problem of partition is relative to the community property undivided in the judgment, the people's court shall inform the litigant to lodge lawsuit in a separate case. 
210. In case of discovering the judgment of first and second instances for the cases, which are reviewed or retried as per the procedure of second instance, in violation of the legal proceedings, the people's court shall handle with it in different circumstances:
(1) If deeming the cases fall short of the acceptance requirements stipulated by the Civil Procedure Law, it may rule to reverse the judgment of first and second instances and deny the lawsuit. 
(2) It may remand the case to the people's court of first instance if the case contains the circumstances violating the legal proceedings stipulated by Article 181 of these Guidelines that may affect the correct judgment and rule in writing of the case. 
211. In case of discovering the litigant due to take part omitted in the judgment of first and second instances of the case retried in procedure for trial supervision, the people's court may carry out mediation in the principle of the litigants' voluntariness.  In case of failure in the mediation, the people's court may rule to reverse the judgment of first and second instances and remand the case to the people's court of first instance for retrial. 
212. Two years mentioned in Article 182 of the Civil Procedure Law is the fixed term starting from the next day to the effective date of the judgment and ruling in writing. 
213. The case of retrial as per the procedure of first instance or procedure of second instance shall be subject to the time limit for concluding a trial stipulated in Article 135 and Article 159 of the Civil Procedure Law.  The time limit for concluding a trial starts from the next day of the determination for retrial. 
214. The provision of Article 192 in these Opinions is applicable for the procedure for trial supervision. 

XIV. Proceedings for supervising and urging the clearance of debt
215. The people's court shall accept the creditor's application for the order of payment according with the following conditions and inform the creditor within five days after receiving the application: 
(1) Applying for performing the negotiable securities such as the money, bill of exchange, promissory note, check and share, bond, treasury bill and alienable deposit ticket, etc.;
(2) Applying for performing the money or mature negotiable securities with affirmatory amount stated with the ground facts and evidences of the claims;
(3) The creditor has no obligations for reciprocal payment against delivery; and
(4) The order of payment can be served on the debtor. 
The people's court may inform the applicant of not accepting his application falling short of the above-mentioned conditions. 
216. After accepting such application, the people's court may send one judge to examine it.  In case of the application examined untenable, the people's court shall rule to deny the application and the ruling in writing shall not be appealed. 
217. In the event that the applicant withdraws his application before the issuing of the order of payment, the people's court shall rule to terminate the proceedings for supervising and urging the clearance of debt. 
218. The case in which the creditor is not at home or his whereabouts inside China territory unknown shall not be subject to the proceedings for supervising and urging the clearance of debt. 
219. The order of payment shall state the following items: 
(1) The basic information such as the creditor, the name or title of the creditor;
(2) The types and amount of the money or negotiable security to be paid by the debtor;
(3) Time limit for paying off the debts or lodging an objection; and
(4) The legal consequences for the debtor who fails to lodge an objection within the statutory period;
The order of payment shall be signed by the judge and the engrossment clerk stamped with the seal of the people's court. 
220. In case of the debtor refusing to accept the order of payment serviced, the people's court may service by leaving rejected legal processes at the place of abode of the debtor. 
221. When the debtor lodges a written objection within the statutory period, the people's court has not to examine whether the objection is reasonable and shall directly rule to terminate the proceedings for supervising and urging the clearance of debt according to Article 192 of the Civil Procedure Law.  The debtor's objection will not affect the effect of the order of payment if he just file objection upon the debts and upon his deficiency of liquidity. 
The oral objection of the debtor is deemed void. 
222. The ruling in writing to dismiss the application for order of payment according to Article 191 of the Civil Procedure Law and the ruling in writing to terminate the proceedings for supervising and urging the clearance of debt according to Article 192 of the Civil Procedure Law shall be signed by the judge and the engrossment clerk stamped with the seal of the people's court.
223. The effect of the order of payment will not be affected if the debtor does not lodge an objection within the statutory period but lodge an appeal with other people's court after receiving the order of payment. 
224. The people's court with jurisdiction shall accept the appeal lodged by the creditor after the termination of the proceedings for supervising and urging the clearance of debt. 
225. The time limit for the creditor to apply for the order of payment to the people's court shall be subject to the provision of Article 219 of the Civil Procedure Law. 

XV. Procedure of public summons for exhortation
226. The holder of a bill mentioned in Article 193 of the Civil Procedure Law refers to the final holder of the bill before being stolen, missed or lost. 
227. The people's court shall examine the application immediately after it receives the application for procedure of public summons for exhortation and decide whether to accept.  It may notice to accept and inform the payer to cease the payment if thinking the application falls in line with the conditions for acceptance.  It may rule to dismiss the application within seven days if thinking the application falls short of the conditions for acceptance.
228. The public notice issued by the people's court to accept the application according to Article 194 of the Civil Procedure Law shall state the following contents: 
(1) Name or title of the applicant of the public summons for exhortation;
(2) Type of bill, par value, drawer, holder and endorser, etc.;
(3) Duration for claim of rights; and
(4) The legal consequences for the interested person who fails to claim for rights to transfer the rights of the bill within the duration for claim of rights;
229. The public notice shall be posted in the bulletin column of the people's court and published in relative newspaper or other propaganda media.  If there is stock exchange, the public notice shall be posted to the stock exchange. 
230. The people's court shall rule to terminate the procedure of public summons for exhortation if the interested person claims for rights within the duration for claim of rights.  The people's court shall rule to terminate the procedure of public summons for exhortation as well if the interested person claims for rights after the expiry of the duration for claim of rights and before the judgment. 
231. The people's court shall inform the interested person claiming for his rights to present the bill to the court and inform the applicant of the public summons for exhortation to examine the bill in the appointed duration.  In case of discrepancy between the bill applied by the applicant of the public summons for exhortation and the bill presented by the interested person, the people's court shall rule to deny the declaration of the interested person. 
232. In case there is no one to claim for right within the duration for claim for right or the claim is denied, the applicant of the public summons for exhortation shall apply to the people's court to make judgment within one month from the next day of the expiry of the duration for claim for right.  In case of the applicant's failure in applying for judgment, the people's court shall terminate the procedure of public summons for exhortation. 
233. The applicant of the public summons for exhortation is entitled to ask for payment to the payer according to the judgment after the validation of the judgment. 
234. The case to be handled in procedure of public summons for exhortation may be handled by only one judge; the case in which the bill is declared invalid shall be handled by the collegial bench. 
235. The applicant of the public summons for exhortation shall put forward withdrawal of his application before the public summons for exhortation.  In case he applies to withdraw within the duration of the public summons for exhortation, the people's court may directly rule to terminate the procedure of public summons for exhortation. 
236. The people's court shall observe the stipulations relating to the property preservation to inform the payer to cease the payments according to Article 194 of the Civil Procedure Law.  The payer refusing to ceasing paying after receiving the notice for suspension of payment shall bear the paying liability after judgment as well as be imposed upon compulsory measures according to Article 102 and Article 103 of the Civil Procedure Law. 
237. The applicant of the public summons for exhortation or the declarant lodges a lawsuit after the people's court has ruled to terminate the procedure of public summons for exhortation according to Article 196 of the Civil Procedure Law, the people's court shall determine the jurisdiction according to Article 27 of the Civil Procedure Law. 
238. The ruling in writing to terminate the procedure of public summons for exhortation according to Article 196 of the Civil Procedure Law shall be signed by the judge and the engrossment clerk stamped with the seal of the people's court. 
239. The interested person files a lawsuit with the people's court according to Article 198 of the Civil Procedure Law, the people's court shall handle the case as the dispute over commercial paper in general procedure.
 
【法规标题】最高人民法院《关于适用〈中华人民共和国民事诉讼法〉若干问题的意见》(附英文)(五)
【发文字号】法发(1992)22号
【颁布日期】1992-07-14
【实施日期】1992-07-14
【失效日期】
【颁布单位】最高人民法院
【时效性】
【时效性说明】
 
 
最高人民法院《关于适用〈中华人民共和国民事诉讼法〉若干问题的意见》(附英文)(五)
 
   
 
 
【Title】Opinions (VI) of the Supreme the People's Court on the Issues the Application of the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
【Document No.】
【Promulgation Date】1992-07-14
【Effective Date】1992-07-14
【Repealed Date】
【Promulgation Body】The Supreme People's Court
【Status】
【Status Description】
 

【Full Text】

   
 

Isinolaw Reference ID: 120-19922238

 
 

16. Procedure on bankruptcy and liquidation of an enterprise with status of legal person
240. The collective enterprise, jointly operated enterprise, private enterprise and Chinese-foreign equity joint venture, Chinese-foreign contractual joint venture and wholly foreign-owned enterprise that are established in China with status of legal person are applicable for the procedure on bankruptcy and liquidation of enterprise with status of legal person.
If the jointed parties in the jointly operated enterprise is owned by the whole people, the bankruptcy shall not be subject to this procedure.
241. According to the estate under mortgage and other collaterals, the creditor enjoys the priority of compensation.  The mortgagee and other guarantee creditors asking for the priority of compensation after the case of bankruptcy liquidation handled and before the bankruptcy declaration shall be permitted by the people's court.
In case that the estate under mortgage and other collaterals is insufficient to pay for the debts, the balance shall be listed as the credit of bankrupt. 
242. After accepting the bankruptcy case, the people's court shall set up collegial bench to handle the case. 
243. According to Article 200 of the Civil Procedure Law, the people's court shall publish the bankruptcy notice in newspapers covering the following contents:
(1) Date of placing a case on file;
(2) The debtor in the bankruptcy case;
(3) Duration and place of claim for creditor's right and the legal consequences of not claim overdue; and
(4) The date and place for holding the first creditors council. 
244. The procedure of other civil enforcement and the procedure of property preservation shall be suspended after the people's court has accepted the bankruptcy case.
245. After accepting the bankruptcy case, the people 's court shall timely inform the opening bank of the debtor to suspend handling the settlement business of the debtor.  The opening bank shall be permitted by the people' court to pay for the necessary cost to the debtor for maintaining the normal production and operation.
246. If the people's court sets up the bankruptcy liquidation group according to the Article 201 of the Civil Procedure Law, the disposal and distribution planning for the insolvent properties shall be worked out by the bankruptcy liquidation group and be adopted by the creditors council and reported to the people's court for ruling before enforcement. 
247. The disposal and distribution planning for the insolvent properties adopted by the creditors council shall be passed by more than half of the creditors presenting the council with voting rights and with more than half of the total amount of creditor's rights among the credit free from property security.  The reconciliation agreement shall be agreed on by more than two thirds of the total amount of creditor's right among the creditor's right free from property security.
248. The reconciliation agreement stipulated by Article 200 of the Civil Procedure Law shall cover the following items: 
(1) Property resources to clear off the debts;
(2) Methods of clearing off the debts; and
(3) Time limit for clearing off the debts.
249. In the course of keeping, liquidating, evaluating, disposing of and distributing the insolvent properties, the bankruptcy liquidation group shall take responsibility to the people's court and report work to it and accept the supervision of the people's court and the creditors council. 
250. After the distribution of insolvent property, the bankruptcy liquidation group shall apply to the people' court for ruling to terminate the bankruptcy proceedings.  After the termination of the bankruptcy proceedings, the creditor ' right unpaid shall not be paid again.
251. After the termination of the bankruptcy proceedings, the bankruptcy liquidation group shall handle the write-off register to the original registrar of the bankruptcy enterprise. 
252. All the cases of bankruptcy liquidation shall be conducted in the form of ruling.  Except for the ruling of dismissing the bankruptcy application, the litigant shall not file an appeal to other rulings. 
253. When handling the case of bankruptcy liquidation, the people's court can make reference to the relevant provisions of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Enterprise Bankruptcy (for Trial Implementation) in addition to the application of the provisions in Chapter 19 of the Civil Procedure Law.

17. Procedure of enforcement 
254. The subject of the compulsory enforcement shall be property or act.  If the litigant refuses to perform the validated judgment, ruling in writing, mediation paper and order of payment, the people' court shall dispatch the notice of enforcement to the litigant.  If the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed still refuses to perform within the period specified in the notice of enforcement, the people' court shall carry out the compulsory enforcement.
255. The people' court working out the order of payment shall be liable for the enforcement of the validated order of payment.
256. According to Paragraph 2 Article 207 of the Civil Procedure Law, other legal documents executed by the people' court shall include the arbitral award and notarized instruments of the creditor's right. 
Other legal documents shall be executed by the people's court in the place of residence of the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed or in the place of the locality of property of the person against whom a judgment or ruling is executed.  If the litigant applies for enforcement to the above-said people' courts separately, it shall be executed by the people' court that accepts the applicant first.
257. Suspension of enforcement stipulated in Article 208 of the Civil Procedure Law shall be limited within the property range against which an objection is filed stipulated by this Article.  The enforcement for other properties of the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed shall not be suspended.  The people's court shall inform to deny the objection whose ground is not established. 
258. When executing the judgment, ruling in writing and mediation paper, the enforcing staff finding mistakes in them shall raise opinion in writing and submit to the president of the court for investigation and disposition.  When executing the judgment, ruling in writing and mediation paper of the higher the people's court, the enforcing staff finding mistakes in them shall raise opinion in writing and submit to the higher the people's court for investigation and disposition after being approved by the president of the court. 
259. The people's court in the place of residence of the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed or in the place of the locality may authorize the local the people's court to execute on its behalf and may execute in the locality by itself directly.  When executing directly in the locality, the responsible people's court may request the local the people's court to assist the enforcement.  Local people' court shall assist the enforcement according to the requirements.
260. During the enforcement by entrustment, the entrusting people's court shall present the letter of authorization and validated legal documents in duplicates.  The letter of authorization shall put forward the definite requirements of enforcement.
261. After receiving the letter of authorization, the entrusted people's court is not entitled to substantive investigation to the validated legal documents for enforcement.  The entrusted people's court finding mistakes in the executed legal documents in the course of enforcement shall reflect to the entrusting the people's court in time.
262. The entrusted people's court shall execute strictly according to the regulations in the validated legal document and the requirements of entrusting the people's court.  If the time, term and way for the debtor to perform his debts have to be changed, the entrusted people's court shall get the permission of the enforcement applicant and inform the changes to the entrusting the people's court in time.
263. When the conditions for suspension or termination of enforcement occur, the entrusted people's court shall write to the entrusting the people's court, which shall make ruling.  The entrusted people's court shall not rule to suspend or terminate the enforcement without the permission of the entrusting the people's court. 
264. If the person other than involved in the case objects the executive subjects in the enforcement by entrustment, the entrusted people's court shall write to the entrusting the people's court with the objection.  The entrusting the people's court shall inform to deny the objection or rule to suspend the enforcement.  The enforcement shall be suspended during this period. 
265. According to the Paragraph 2 Article 210 of the Civil Procedure Law, the higher people's court of the entrusted people's court shall instruct the entrusted people's court to execute in written order within five days and notify the case to the entrusting the people's court in time after receiving the enforcement of requirement issued by the entrusting the people's court. 
When receiving the written instruction of the higher the people's court, the entrusted people's court shall execute immediately and report the enforcement to higher the people's court and notify the entrusting the people's court. 
266. In the course of the enforcement, the people's court shall resume the enforcement when one party does not perform or does not completely perform the reconciliation agreement reached by both parties voluntarily and the opposite party applies for enforcing the original validated legal document.  The people's court shall not resume the enforcement when the reconciliation agreement has been performed already. 
267. The application for resuming enforcement of the original legal document shall be subject to the time limit of application for enforcement stipulated in Article 219 of the Civil Procedure Law.  When time limit of the application for enforcement is suspended due to the establishment of the reconciliation agreement during the enforcement, the time limit shall be counted continuously from the last day of the term of performance stated in the reconciliation agreement. 
268. For probation of enforcement determined by the people's court according to the Article 212 of the Civil Procedure Law, if the guaranty has limitation of time, the limitation of probation of enforcement shall be adjusted to the same as the limitation of guaranty, but the longest limitation shall not be more than one year.  If the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed transfers, conceals, sells off and impairs the properties guaranteed during the period of probation of enforcement, the people's court may resume the compulsory enforcement. 
269. The enforcement guaranty stipulated in Article 212 of the Civil Procedure Law can be guaranteed by the property offered by the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed to the people's court, or guaranteed by the third party.  If the enforcement is guaranteed by property, written pledge shall be submitted to the people's court.  If the enforcement is guaranteed by the third party, letter of guarantee shall be submitted to the people's court.  The guarantor shall have the capacity to perform on behalf or bear the liability for damage on behalf.  
270. If the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed still does not perform his duty upon the expiration of time limitation of probation of enforcement determined by the people's court, the people's court may enforce the property guaranteed directly, or rule to execute the property of guarantor.  The enforcement upon the property of guarantor shall be limited to the property with which the guarantor performs his duty. 
271. According to Article 213 of the Civil Procedure Law, the organizations for the legal person or other organization as the persons against whom judgment or ruling are being executed are split or amalgamated during the enforcement, its rights and liabilities shall be born by the changed legal person or other organization.  If the legal person or other organization are recalled with bearer for its rights and liabilities according to substantive law, the people's court may rule the bearer as the persons against whom judgment or ruling are being executed. 
272. When other organization cannot perform the obligation determined in the legal documents during the enforcement, the people' court may rule to execute the properties of the legal person or other organization bearing obligations for such other organization. 
273. When the name of the legal person or other organization as the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed is changed during the enforcement, the people's court may adjudicate the changed legal person or other organization as the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed.
274. In the event that the heir of the deceased citizen as the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed does not renounce his succession, the people's court may adjudge to change the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed, and the heir shall pay off the debts within the range of inheritance.  If the heir renounces his succession, the people's court may execute the inheritance of the deceased person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed directly. 
275. According to law, after the enforcement of other legal documents executed by the people's court is fulfilled, the legal documents recalled by authorities concerned according to law shall be subject to Article 214 of the Civil Procedure Law with the application of the litigant.
276. When the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed is enterprise with status of legal person fails to liquidate the matured debt during the enforcement, the people's court may declare bankruptcy of the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed as per the application of the creditor or the debtor according to law.
277. If part of the matters adjudicated by the arbitration organization are covered by the range of the arbitral agreement and part of the matters is beyond the range of the arbitral agreement, the people's court shall adjudge non-enforcement for the part beyond the range of the arbitral agreement.
278. According to the Paragraph 2 and Paragraph 3 Article 217 of the Civil Procedure Law, the litigants may re-conclude the written arbitral agreement to apply for arbitration, or file a lawsuit with the people's court after the people's court adjudges non-enforcement of the arbitral award. 
279. The people's court shall dispatch the notice of enforcement stipulated in the Article 220 of the Civil Procedure Law within ten days after receiving the application for enforcement.  The notice of enforcement shall not only order the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed to perform the obligations determined by the legal documents, but also inform his to bear the interests for delay of performance or the surcharge for delay of performance stipulated by Article 232 of the Civil Procedure Law.
280. The people's court may inquire, freeze, and appropriate the deposit of the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed directly from the bank, surbranches of bank, savings bank, credit cooperative and other units with deposit operations.  The people's court in other place may directly inquiry, freeze and appropriate the deposit of the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed for his performance of the repaying obligations from the bank, surbranches of bank, savings bank, credit cooperative and other units with deposit operations in the place of residence of the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed or in the place of the locality of executed property without presenting the formalities of the local people's court.
281. When it's necessary for the people's court to sell of the property of the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed during the enforcement, the people's court may deliver it to the authority concerned for selling-off, or sell off the property directly.  If the property is sold off by the people's court directly, the people's court shall inquiry the authority concerned about price before the selling off and the price shall be fair and reasonable. 
The people's court or its working staff shall purchase or receive the sold-off property.
282. During the enforcement, any authority including other people's courts shall not re-attach, freeze or defreeze the property of the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed attached or frozen by the people's court according to the Article 221 and Article 223 of the Civil Procedure Law without authorization.  The violating party shall be handled according to Article 101 of the Civil Procedure Law. If the executed property may not satisfy all the demands for liquidation of the person who applies for enforcement, the people's court may handle the executed property according to the provision of Article 204 of the Civil Procedure Law.
283. According to Article 231 of the Civil Procedure Law, the litigant does not perform the duty determined in the legal documents.  If this duty shall only be fulfilled by the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed, the people' court shall handle the case according to the Item 6 Paragraph 2 Article 102 of the Civil Procedure Law.  
284. The people's court shall execute the original subjects when the executive subjects are special objects.  It may compensate by converting the original subjects not existing any more into money. 
285. In the course of enforcement, if the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed conceals the property, the people's court may handle the case according to Article 102 of the Civil Procedure Law, and may simultaneously order the person to hand in the concealed property or compensate by discounting.  If the person refuse to hand in the property or compensate, the people's court may compel to execute other properties of the person according to the value of the executed property, or recover the concealed property in the searching measure.
286. According to Article 227 of the Civil Procedure Law, the people' court shall fall in line with the following requirements before searching the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed and his place of domicile or the hiding place of property:
(1) The deadline for performance determined by the legal documents has expired;
(2) The person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed does not perform its obligations determined by the legal documents;
(3) Thinking such person with the act of concealing his property. 
The search personnel shall put on the clothes as per the regulations and present their search warrants and identification cards. 
287. The immaterial persons are forbidden to enter the scene of searching when the people' court carries out the searching. If the object for search is a citizen, the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed or his grown-up family members and the grass-rooted organization shall be informed to send persons to the scene of searching.  If the object for search is juridical person or other organization, the legal representative or principal person in charge shall be presented at the scene. If the object for search has the governing department, the person concerned in the governing department shall be informed to be present to the scene of search.  The person refusing to be present will not influence the search. 
The search of the women's bodies shall be done by the female executive personnel. 
288. In the course of search, the property discovered to be detained according to law shall be handled as per Paragraph 2 Article 224 and Article 226 of the Civil Procedure Law. 
289. The transcript of search recorded during the course of search shall be signed or sealed by the search stuff, the person searched or other persons on the spot.  If they refuse to sign or seal, it shall be recorded in the transcript of search.
290. After the people' court sends out the notice of assistance enforcement, the juridical person or other organization holding the legal documents calling for them to delivering the property or coupons refusing to transmit shall be handled and executed in compulsion according to Article 103 of the Civil Procedure Law. 
291. When the unit concerned and individual destroy or loss the legal documents calling for them to delivering the property or coupons held by them for their own faults, the people' count may order the holder to compensate.  The people's court may carry out compulsory enforcement to the unit or individual refusing to compensate according the value of the executed property or coupons. 
292. In the course of enforcement, it's necessary for the people' court to arrange the transfer formalities for the property ownership such as the house title deed, land certificate, certificate for the ownership of mountain forest, trademark certificate and vehicle licenses, etc., the people's court may handle them according to Article 230 of the Civil Procedure Law. 
293. If the performance is delayed by the executed person, the interests for delay of performance or the surcharge for delay of performance shall be counted from the next day upon the expiration of time limitation of probation of enforcement determined by the legal documents.
294. The interest of debt double paid for the delay of performance according to the Article 232 of the Civil Procedure Law refers to doubling the interests on the base of debt interest calculated with the highest interest rate of the bank loan in the same phase.
295. The executed person failing in perform his non-money payment obligations stipulated by the judgment, ruling in writing and other legal documents within the executive period shall pay for the surcharge for delay of performance whether or not causing losses to the enforcement applicant.  The executed person causing losses shall compensate in doubled value to the enforcement applicant.  The surcharge for delay of performance for the executed person not causing losses shall be determined by the people's court as per the concrete case facts. 
296. The creditor's request to the people's court for continuos enforcement according to Article 233 of the Civil Procedure Law is not limited by the time limit stipulated by Article 219 of the Civil Procedure Law. 
297. After the enforcement procedure begins, if the executed person is a citizen or other organization, the other executive basis gained by the executed person or the creditor having prosecuted to the people's court discovers the property of the person may not pay off all creditor's rights, the creditor may apply for participating in the distribution to the people's court. 
298. The applicator applying for participating in the distribution shall submit written application stating the facts and reasons for participating in the distribution and the fact that the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed may not pay off all the creditor's rights attached with the executive basis as well. 
The application for participating in the distribution shall be submitted after the enforcement procedure begins and before the property of the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed be paid off.
 

299. Where the creditors have become entitled to execute against the debtor's estate and have applied to distribute the same, and if the debtor is a citizen or an organization, the property of the debtor shall be paid off in accordance with the provision of Article 204 of the Civil Procedure Law.  When the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed may not clear off the debts in the same order, then his properties shall be distributed pro rata.  The outstanding debts after the pay off shall be continuously paid off by the executed person.  The creditors may request the people's court to execute other properties of the executed person discovered by them at any time. 
300. When the executed person is unable to clear off the debts but debts due to him have matured, the people's court shall inform the debtor of the executed person to performing the debt repayment obligation in favour of the creditors applying for execution. The people's court may carry out compulsory enforcement if the debtor has no objection to the debts but fails in performance within the set deadline. 
301. With the approval of the applicant for the enforcement and the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed, the property of the executed person may be evaluated and delivered to the person who applies for the enforcement to compensate for the debts without auction or realization.  The person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed shall go on with the liquidation of the balance debts. 
302. When the property of the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed may not be auctioned or sold off, the people's court may evaluate the property and deliver it to the person who applies for enforcement to repay the debts or may ask him to administer it.  If the person applying for enforcement refuses to take deliver or administer the property, the property shall be returned to the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed.  
303. After the enforcement is fulfilled, if the person against whom a judgment or ruling is being executed or other litigants act in such manner as to jeopardize the executed matter, the people's court shall take measures to abate the jeopardy and handle it in accordance with the provisions of Article 102 of the Civil Procedure Law.  When damage is caused to the person who applies for enforcement or other litigants, they may file a lawsuit in the people's court in a separate case.
 
【法规标题】最高人民法院《关于适用〈中华人民共和国民事诉讼法〉若干问题的意见》(附英文)(六)
【发文字号】法发(1992)22号
【颁布日期】1992-07-14
【实施日期】1992-07-14
【失效日期】
【颁布单位】最高人民法院
【时效性】
【时效性说明】
 
 
最高人民法院《关于适用〈中华人民共和国民事诉讼法〉若干问题的意见》(附英文)(六)
 
   
 
 
 
【Title】Opinions (VII) of the Supreme People's Court the Application of the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
【Document No.】
【Promulgation Date】1992-07-14
【Effective Date】1992-07-14
【Repealed Date】
【Promulgation Body】The Supreme People's Court
【Status】
【Status Description】
 

【Full Text】

   
 

Isinolaw Reference ID: 120-19922239

 
 

XVIII. Special provisions on civil procedure concerning foreign interests 
304. One party or both parties are foreigners, stateless person, foreign enterprise or organization, or the legal fact that civil legal relationship between parties establishes, changes, suspends and happens abroad, or the civil case concerning subject matter in foreign country are civil cases concerning foreign interests.
305. According to the provisions of Article 34 and Article 246 of Civil Procedure Law, if the case is under the jurisdiction of the people's court in the People's Republic of China, the party is not allowed to choose courts in other countries for the jurisdiction by written agreement except for the arbitral award otherwise agreed.
306. In the event that both the people's court in the People's Republic of China and the foreign court have jurisdiction of the case, one party files a lawsuit with the foreign court, while the other party files a lawsuit with the people' court in the People's Republic of China, then the people's court may accept such case.  After the judgment, the foreign court or the litigant shall not be allowed to ask the people's court to acknowledge and execute the judgment and ruling made by the foreign court for this case, except for the case otherwise stipulated in the international treaties participated by both countries or entered into by both countries. 
307. The people's court shall declare and send the court verdict and ruling in writing to the defendant living outside China's territory after the trial by default who fails to present the trial after service of documents or summons by the means of announcement as per Paragraph 7 Article 247 of the Civil Procedural Law.  The first-instance judgment shall take effect in the event that the litigants do not lodge appeals after thirty-day's appellate period starting from the next day of expiry of six months of the service by publication and the issuing of the court verdict.  
308. The party with foreign nationality in the civil action concerning foreign interests can authorize his compatriot as his procurator or his national lawyer with the status of non-lawyer as his procurator.  The officials in the foreign embassy or consulate stationed in China authorized by his national citizens can act as the procurators in the names of their individual status without enjoying the diplomatic privileges and immunities during the proceeding. 
309. In the civil procedure concerning foreign interest, if the litigant as the national citizen is not in our realm, the officials authorized by the foreign embassy and consulate stationed in China can appoint Chinese lawyers or Chinese citizens to represent the civil procedure in name of the diplomatic representative.
310. In the civil procedure, if both parties reach the agreement by conciliation, the people's court shall present reconciliation agreement to them.  If the party claims for the court verdict, the people's court may draw up the verdict according to the content of the agreement and deliver it to such party.
311. In the event that both parties are living respectively inside and outside China territory, the appellate period for the court verdict and ruling in writing of the first-instance court of the litigant living at home shall adopt the period stipulated in Article 147 of the Civil Procedural Law and that for the litigant living at abroad shall be thirty days.  The first-instance judgment shall take effect in the event that both parties do not lodge appeals upon the expiry of the appellate period.  
312. The provision of Article 145 to 148, Article 277, Article 278 of these guidelines are applicable for the civil procedures concerning foreign interests. 
313. If one party does not perform the arbitral award made by our arbitration agency concerning foreign interest and the other party requests the court to execute, the people's court shall handle the case as per the related provisions in Chapter 28 in the Civil Procedural Laws.
314. The applicant shall submit written application enclosed with the original text of the judgement to the court to execute the arbitral award made by our arbitration agency.  The foreigner applicant shall present the application in Chinese.
315. The people's court may suspend the enforcement of the arbitral award of the foreign arbitration agent after the person against whom a judgment or order is being executed pleads with one of the circumstances stipulated by Paragraph 1 Article 260 of the Civil Procedural Law and after he has provided property guarantee.  The people's court shall inspect the argument of the person against whom a judgment or order is being executed and rule not to execute or deny the argument according to the review result. 
316. The dissolution or termination of the economic contact concerning foreign interests shall not influence the validity of the arbitration clauses in the contact.  One of the parties shall not be accepted to file a lawsuit with the people' court whose economic contract with arbitral clauses concerning foreign interest is dismissed or terminated.
317. The people's court shall examine and approve the foreign arbitration organization's property preservation application of the litigant to the people's court for ruling to determine the property preservation.  The court ruling to adopt property preservation shall order the applicant to provide guarantee.  The court shall deny the application in case the applicant does not provide guarantee. 
318. In the event that the litigant applies for the intermediate people's court with jurisdiction in the People's Republic of China to acknowledge and execute the validated verdict and ruling made by the foreign court and that the country of the foreign court has not entered into or participated the international treaty, nor with reciprocal relation, the litigant may lodge an appeal with the people's court with jurisdiction for enforcement. 
319. The court of this country shall retrocede and give the reasons for retroceding the petition of the court in the countries which has no judicial assistance agreement or mutually beneficial relationship with our country without diplomatic channel ask our court's judicial aid directly. 
320. In the event the litigant using the court verdict and ruling in writing of the people's court outside China's territory asks this people's court to verify the validity, and the foreign court asks this people's court to verify the legal validity of the court verdict and ruling in writing, the people's court making the court verdict and ruling in writing shall present certificate in name of this court.
 
【法规标题】最高人民法院《关于适用〈中华人民共和国民事诉讼法〉若干问题的意见》(附英文)(七)
【发文字号】法发(1992)22号
【颁布日期】1992-07-14
【实施日期】1992-07-14
【失效日期】
【颁布单位】最高人民法院
【时效性】
【时效性说明】
 
 
最高人民法院《关于适用〈中华人民共和国民事诉讼法〉若干问题的意见》(附英文)(七)