清代立嗣过继受到法律、宗族规训及谱例、民间惯习等制度的约束和引导。清朝法律强调立嗣过继应遵守昭穆秩序， 但又有允许择爱等弹性规定。宗族组织的立嗣过继规训、谱例与法律具有较高的一致性， 甚至其正统性意识较官方政策更强。民间惯习中立嗣过继的循序原则一定程度上被软化了， 以便使这一行为更符合立嗣者及其家庭的利益。立嗣过继个案显示， 民众的立嗣过继行为并非不折不扣地遵循法律条文， 而是在法律规定范围内进行调整， 立嗣过继中的违规做法也非个别现象。

Making inheritor was constrained and guided by law，clan rules and folk habitus in the Qing dynasty. According to law of the time，making inheritor should obeyed Zhao Mu order that was related to the funeral and sacrificial modes，while it had some elastic regulations that allowed the man or his family without son to choose an heir from the clansmen he or his spouse liked. The clan rule of the making inheritor was consistent with the law，even it was more conservative than the law. The sequential principle to choose an heir was softened to some extent in the folk habitus，so that to be more in line with interests of the families choosing heirs. The case of making inheritor shows，the folk practice of making inheritor did not strictly follow the legal rules，but to be adjusted to a certain extent. Illegal practice in process of making inheritor was not individual phenomenon in folk society of the Qing Dynasty.