我国现行民事诉讼法关于“检察机关有权对民事审判活动实行法律监督”的规定在实践中难以操作，理论上亦有诸多问题。本文拟对外国的民事检察制度进行初步的比较研究，并希望对解决我国民事检察制度相应的理论与实践问题具有启示作用。一、外国民事检察制度的历史起源与现状一 The existing provisions of the Civil Procedure Law of our country on “procuratorial organs have the power to exercise legal supervision over civil trial activities” are difficult to handle in practice and there are theoretically many problems. This article intends to conduct a preliminary comparative study of the foreign procuratorial system and hopes to provide some enlightenment for solving the corresponding theoretical and practical problems of the civil procuratorial system in our country. First, the history of foreign civil procuratorial system and the status quo one