The dualization of real right transfer has been adopted in Chinese Real Right Law, that is,"publicity as an effective element" as the principle, and"publicity as a confronting element" as the exception. The study on real right transfer in China before mainly focuses on the former, while the study on the latter shows its inadequacy. Therefore, how to explain the registration confrontation doctrine as the exception is a theoretical and practical problem we have to deal with.On the theoretical level, there are a few problems to be answered: what is confrontation? Which real right is the one that cannot confront a third party? And how can reconcile the systematical conflict of the two doctrines of real right transfer? This article observes kinds of theory construction of the registration confrontation doctrine in the comparative law, and draws the conclusion that the theory of right appearance, which belongs to the theory of public reliance theory, is the most suitable theory for explaining the legislation purpose and the civil law system of China. According to this theory, two parties could transfer real rights completely by declaring their wills only. However, if a third party executes transaction before the former two parties’ registration, owing to trusting the unchangeable appearance of the real right, the real right of the third party should be recognized after his registration.On the practical level, it is a tricky problem to define the range of the third party in bona fide who could not be confronted without other party’s registration. It is generally an effective way to distinguish between the third party in bona fide and those in mala fide in principle, and to protect the third party in bona fide in Chinese Real Right Law. With the methods of legal economics and comparative law, some exceptions should also be accepted, that is, complete non-obligees such as infringers, heirs, prior parties and subsequent parties in transaction, general creditors in narrow sense and specific objects creditors could be confronted absolutely, and bankruptcy creditors, seizure creditors and creditors participating in distribution could not be confronted absolutely, whether in bona fide or in mala fide. |