一、前言穗积重远(1883—1951)是穗积陈重的长子,他在大正5年(1916年)取得东京帝国大学法科大学教授资格,此后作为大正民主运动中的一位法学家而活跃于那个时代。有关重远致力于民法学,特别是家族法领域的研究,留下了巨大的学术业绩的情况,早已是世所公认而无需多言 I. INTRODUCTION The earliest son of Megumi Shoicho (1883-1951), the eldest son of Megumi Shizuka, was qualified as a professor of law at the Tokyo Imperial University in the year of Taisho (1916) and as a jurist in the Taisho Democracy Movement Active in that era. The research on how heavy industry devoted itself to the study of civil law, especially the law of the family, has left a huge academic performance and has long been recognized in the world without any need to say much