Julio César Rivera's The Scope and Structure of Civil Codes PDF

By Julio César Rivera

ISBN-10: 9400779410

ISBN-13: 9789400779419

ISBN-10: 9400779429

ISBN-13: 9789400779426

This distinctive research of the content material and configuration of civil codes in varied jurisdictions additionally examines their dating with a few branches of non-public legislation as: kinfolk legislation, advertisement legislations, buyer legislations and personal overseas legislation. It analyzes the codification, decodification and recodification methods illuminating the discussion among present codes – and personal legislations laws often – with Constitutions and foreign Conventions.

The statement elucidates the altering specifications of civil legislation because it shifted from an early defense of patrimony to a help for advertisement and contractual legislation. It additionally explains the various trajectories of civil legislations, which in a few jurisdictions was once merged with spiritual criminal tenets in its codification of familial kin, whereas in others it was once fused with advertisement legislation or, certainly, codified from scratch as a discrete felony corpus. in different places, the amount offers fabric on differing techniques to purchaser legislation, the place appropriate laws can be scattered throughout quite a few statutes, and in addition on deepest foreign legislations, an issue of accelerating relevance in a global the place company companies have pursuits in a number of jurisdictions (and usually play one off opposed to another).

The quantity positive factors invited contributions from best students within the box of personal legislation introduced jointly for a detailed research of the present regulatory perspective during this box of the legislations in jurisdictions with different felony platforms and traditions. In present occasions we're witnessing the adoption of diverging regulatory suggestions. during the research of the earlier and current of non-public legislations law, the quantity unveils the underlying developments and relevance of the codification process around the world.

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The minors, the aged and the disabled shall be taken care of and protected by the Macao Special Administrative Region” (article 38). Still according to MBL (article 40), in what Family Law is concerned, the provisions of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Pacto Internacional sobre os Direitos Civis e Políticos) and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Pacto Internacional sobre os Direitos Económicos, Sociais e Culturais) shall remain in force and shall be implemented through the laws of the MSAR.

There was a major Act on company law, another on insolvency law, etc…”. Also, the Belgium case clearly illustrates this point; the code was subjected to multiple revisions during the nineteenth century; the national essay describes the process as follows: “The need of new texts was so 38 Such is the example of the Venezuelan Code which is divided into three books, the first for the law of merchants, commercial contracts, commercial companies, credit instruments; the second for maritime law and the third for bankruptcies.

It governs all persons, and consists of ten articles: (1) General Provisions, (2) Sales of Goods, (2A) Leases of Goods, (3) Negotiable Instruments, (4) Bank Deposits, (4A) Funds Transfers, (5) Letters of Credit, (6) Bulk Transfers and Bulk Sales (repealed), (7) Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title, (8) Investment Securities, and (9) Secured Transactions. It thus brings together all of the basic aspects of commercial transactions of the day. 47 The reform was passed by the National Congress, but was vetoed by the Executive Power.

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