Conprehensive Study on Powers of Testament Executor

本研究旨在通过对各种法律制度的比较，结合周边制度（如继承、遗嘱、民事诉讼等）及其历史发展，对遗嘱执行人的物质和程序地位及作用进行基础研究。在另一篇文章中叙述了两年来的成果。《现代家庭法研讨会》报道了部分案例。除学者外，家事法庭法官和审查员出席了上述所有研讨会，并提供了有意义的指示和建议。伊藤从去年开始在法国继续研究遗嘱制度。这一年，他还参考了英美法系国家遗嘱制度的文件，并取得了一定的成果。川岛研究了美国的遗嘱法律制度。他访问了美国华盛顿特区的乔治敦大学，在那里进行他的研究。他还通过访问京都大学图书馆收集了有关习惯法遗嘱制度的资料。他打算分析收集到的各种文件。去年的共同研究员之一八田拓也从去年春天开始以日本文部科学省海外研究员的身份在德国科隆进行海外留学，因此今年退出了该项目。但他继续研究德语的《圣经》体系。

This research aims at basic study of material and procedural status and role of testament executor through comparison of various legal systems, taking account of surrounding systems (such as inheritance, testament, civil procedure, etc.) including their historical development.Two years' achievements are described in additional paper.Some of them are reported in Modern Family Law Seminar. Family court judges and examiners other than scholars attended all of the above mentioned seminars and provided meaningful indications and suggestions.Ito continued his study over testament system in France from last year.This year he refereed also to documents over testament system of common law countries, and was able to achieve certain results.Kawashima studied legal system of testament in the United States. He visited Georgetown University in Washington D. C., U.S.A., to carry out his research there. He also gathered documents regarding common-law-testament-system through visiting Kyoto University Library. He intends to analyze the gathered various documents.Takuya Hatta, one of the co-researchers last year, left the project this year, because he was engaged in overseas study in Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany, as overseas researcher of Japanese Ministry of Education since Spring last year. But he continues his study over German system of Testament.