“活法”是指法律以外在现实生活中实际起法作用的那些类法规则。传统习惯,作为“活法”的一种,在人类社会具体的社会秩序建构方面或者说在人类组织的“内在秩序”上有其自身的特点。我们应当重视“活法”的作用,同时放宽自己的眼界,吸收“活法”中的有利条件来完善国家的制定法。 “Living law ” refers to those outside the law in real life, the actual role of those rules of law. Traditional custom, as a kind of “living law”, has its own characteristics in the concrete construction of social order in human society or in the “internal order” of human organization. We should pay attention to the role of “living law” while relaxing our horizons and absorbing the favorable conditions in “living law” to improve the law of national development.