国际惯例是在国际交往中经过长期反复实践逐步形成的、具有确定内容的、为世人所共认共知的行为规则。这些行为规则在涉外审判实践中如何得到适用,是值得理论界和实务界探讨的问题。一、关于国际惯例的范围和性质在世界各国的立法和实践中,目前只有冲突规范的国际条约,而不存在冲突规范的国际惯例。尽管各国国内法和若干国际条约常有一些共同采用的冲突规则,但严格地说,这只能算是国际上比较普遍的实践或习惯做法,并非国际惯例。至于法律适用的一些基本原则,则是冲突规则的具体反映而已,或者是法律选择的方法,如果本国法律 International practice is a code of conduct that has been established by the long-term repeated practice in international exchanges and has a definite content and is universally acknowledged by all people. How these rules of behavior are applied in foreign trial practice is a question worthy of discussion between theorists and practitioners. I. THE SCOPE AND NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES In the legislation and practice of all countries in the world, at present there is only an international treaty of conflict norms and no international practice of conflict norms exists. Although some domestic conflicts and some commonly used conflicts of international treaties often exist in domestic laws, strictly speaking, this can only be regarded as a more common international practice or practice, not an international convention. As for the application of some basic principles of law, it is a concrete reflection of the conflict rules, or the method of choice of law, if the law