一般法律原则的存在与职能,曾在多年中引起关于自然法是否披上一般法律原则这件摩登外衣残存下来了的争论。这种争论,无疑是由于低估了一般法律原则在整个历史发展过程中在私法结构里所占的重要地位所致,其实这些原则已越来越经常地从法国最高法院的判决中、特别是从国际私法方面鲜明地表现出来。所以,在过去三十年中,国际商法的发展以引用一些曾引起对一般法律原则的存在与作用表示怀疑和争论的标准与原则为特点,就不足为奇了。实际上,在第二次工业革命和国际生活中出现新兴国家之后,刚被世界经济危机弄 The existence and functions of the general legal principle have, over the years, provoked controversy over the veil of modernity, which enshrines the general legal principle of natural law. Such debates undoubtedly are caused by the underestimation of the importance of the general legal principle in the structure of private law throughout the course of historical development. In fact, these principles have been increasingly and frequently taken from the judgments of the French Supreme Court and especially from Private international law clearly demonstrated. Therefore, it is hardly surprising that the development of international commercial law over the past three decades has characterized the standards and principles that have aroused suspicion and controversy over the existence and the role of general legal principles. In fact, after the emergence of a new country in the second industrial revolution and international life, it has just been hit by the world economic crisis