摘要： 状纸是传统中国时期重要的诉讼文书,但在清末之前,都没有关于状纸的全国性统一规则。清末颁行了通行全国的统一状纸规则,规定当事人起诉需提交统一状纸格式的诉状,成为近代司法制度规范化的重要表现。经过民国时期的几次状纸规则改革,状纸的种类和形式渐趋稳定,状纸的印制和发售已经与国家司法权的统一和地方财政收入紧密关联,最终形成了中央计划管理、地方参与分利的状纸制度。状纸制度的变革是近代中国政府权力扩张的集中体现之一,中央与地方合谋增加收入也加快了该制度的形成。作为近代中国司法统一的重要内容,状纸的形式统一巩固了司法的制度统一。

关键词: 诉状格式, 诉讼状纸, 司法统一, 司法收入, 近代中国法律转型

Abstract: The Zhuangzhi (complaints) is important litigation documents in traditional China, but until the Qing Dynasty, there was no unified national rule about them.At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the unified rules of the complaints were promulgated throughout the country.After several reforms during the Republic of China, the printing and sale of the complaints have been closely related to the unification of national judicial power and local revenue, and finally formed a system of central planning management and local participation in profit distribution.The transformation of the complaints paper system is a concentrated expression of the power expansion of the modern Chinese government, and the central government and the local government conspired to increase revenue, which also accelerated the formation of the system.As an important content of judicial unification in modern China, the unification of forms of Zhuangzhi consolidated the unification of judicial system.

Key words: Form of Zhuangzhi, Complaint Paper, Judicial Unity, Judicial Income, Legal Transformation in Modern China