外国法制史学是我国法学体系中法律史学部分的一个主要学科，属于理论法学的范畴，是我们奠定法学基础必须掌握的一门课程。外国法制史的研究对象是外国历史上各种类型中具有代表性的法律制度的本质、表现形式、内容、特征及其发展变化的过程和规律。它包括法律发展史和法律制 The history of foreign legal history is a major discipline in the legal historiography part of the legal system of our country. It belongs to the category of theoretical jurisprudence and is a course that we must grasp to lay the foundation of jurisprudence. The object of the study of the history of foreign legal system is the nature, form, content, characteristics of the legal system of the various types in foreign history and the process and law of its development and changes. It includes the history of legal development and legal system