El paradigma liberal de la propiedad y la codificacion decimononica en la Republica Argentina

Abstract

The liberal paradigm of ownership was welcomed by the Argentine Civil Code of 1871. This paper first offers two conceptualizations that assist in setting its scope: ownership paradigms and American civil law jurisdictions. This paper then addresses the first generation of civil codes in those American jurisdictions, elaborating on the time of adoption, content, and motivation. The account continues by tracing the codification of the liberal paradigm of ownership in those nineteenth-century normative bodies. Further, this paper offers an illustration of the above-mentioned circulation of ideas, describing the experience of reception of the liberal paradigm within the articles and notes to the text drafted by Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield and its pollination into the civil codes of other jurisdictions. It should be noted that ownership is subject to changes that respond to the mentality of a given society, according to time and space.