质证是司法证明的基本环节之一,也是诉讼活动的基本程序之一。在古今中外的司法实践中,质证活动都是普遍存在的。但是在很长时期内,人们并没有把质证作为一个专门术语在理论上加以阐释和在法律上加以界定。在我国,1979年的《刑事诉讼法》和1982年的《民事诉讼法(试行)》都没有明确使用“质证”的概 Hypothesis is one of the basic steps of judicial evidence and one of the basic procedures of litigation. In the judicial practice both at home and abroad, cross-examination activities are ubiquitous. However, for a long time, people did not theoretically interpret and cross-examine the cross-examination as a special term. In our country, the “Criminal Procedure Law” of 1979 and the “Civil Procedure Law (Trial)” of 1982 did not explicitly use the “certification”