Abstract: During the Qing Dynasty, the inheritance disputes often took place when family property inheritance occurred. It becomes more critical with families without offsprings or when women’ s right were involved. Those inheritance disputes can be seen in great numbers in local officials’ daily administration, which contends the social development and the change of conception on one hand, and people’ s view on legal aid in lawsuit on the other. Since the written laws at that time were mainly criminal laws, the local officials often handled these civil lawsuits by referring to local customs and individual emotion. The law establishment was also an on- going process accompanying the social change, which represents the positive interaction between law and society.