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Civil Code of Paraguay

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ123771051 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Civil Code of Paraguay dates from 1877 and reflects the influence of Continental Law. Like other countries of Latin America, it is inspired in the Code Napoleon. Its first version, in force until 1987, was almost a copy of the Civil Code of Argentina. In this sense, the long-lasting legacy of Argentine lawyer Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield is still revered among Latin American jurists.

See also

Civil Code of Argentina

Bibliography

Silva Alonso, Ramón (2000). Vélez Sarsfield en el nuevo Código Civil paraguayo (PDF) (in Spanish). Academia Nacional de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de Córdoba. Retrieved 2023-11-28.

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This entry incorporates text from “Civil Code of Paraguay” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.