| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-14页 |
| Chapter One Aspects of Legal Descriptions | 第14-29页 |
| ·The Legal Plots | 第14-16页 |
| ·The Justice System | 第16-20页 |
| ·The Legal Characterization | 第20-29页 |
| ·The Parties or Litigants – a Tragic Group | 第21-23页 |
| ·The Chancellors and Other Officers – the Embodiment of Decay | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Lawyers – the Nature of Avarice | 第24-27页 |
| ·The Bystanders – the Fate of Ciphers | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter Two The Authenticity and Fabrication of the Legal Descriptions | 第29-37页 |
| ·The Legal Descriptions and the Chancery | 第29-32页 |
| ·The Legal Descriptions and Dickens’s Legal Thoughts | 第32-37页 |
| Chapter Three The Literary Significance of the Legal Descriptions | 第37-46页 |
| ·The Structural Significance: Law and Conflicts | 第37-39页 |
| ·The Stylistic Significance: Law and Satire | 第39-41页 |
| ·The Thematic Significance: Reality and Humanism | 第41-46页 |
| Conclusion | 第46-47页 |
| Bibliography | 第47-50页 |
