Celebrar lo imposible

El Código Civil en el régimen jurídico de la propiedad: Córdoba entre fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX

Pamela Alejandra Cacciavillani

Global Perspectives on Legal History 18
Frankfurt am Main: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory 2021. XIII, 288 p.
Online version: Open Access (PDF download, lizence: Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 International)
Print version: 23,39 € (Print on Demand at ePubli)

ISSN 2196-9752
ISBN 978-3-944773-34-6
eISBN 978-3-944773-35-3

Quotation link of the online version: http://dx.doi.org/10.12946/gplh18

The book examines the challenges encountered by a national codification enterprise in the process of its implementation in the province of Córdoba, Argentina at the end of the 19th century. The study’s hypothesis is that the enactment of the Civil Code and its subsequent entry into force were necessary but not sufficient conditions to bring about significant changes in the traditional legal property regime.

The book analyses the operability of the code and the consequences that the enactment of this body of norms generated in society. It especially examines the impact that the Civil Code had on the processes of legal transition from a communal form of ownership – namely by indigenous communities – to private ownership.

As normative points of reference may serve, on the one hand, the entry into force of the Civil Code (1871) and, on the other, the passing of provincial laws aimed at dismantling the property of the existing indigenous communities in Córdoba (1881/1885). As Argentina’s institutional design combines a federal organization with a substantial national codification, the focus on local spaces shows how different policies implemented in areas of provincial competence came into tension with the Civil Code.

The analysis abandons a legalistic view of law by drawing on a wide range of sources to analyze both national and provincial developments. This dual perspective allows for a better understanding of the interpretation and implementation of the Argentine Civil Code in the provinces, but also stimulates a more general reflection on codification in federal contexts. The result is a multifaceted account that highlights the role of a particular provincial institution, the Topographic Department, and of a type of legal technical knowledge, land surveying, in rendering abstract property titles concrete.

In sum, Celebrating the Impossible analyzes the construction of a legal category (property), in a specific time and space, recovering the voices of those who suffered – and suffer – the consequences of law that does not see beyond the legal norm. On the basis of these reflections, the book offers a tool for analyzing the construction of legal categories and cases of conflict in structurally unequal spaces.

Índice

IX Agradecimientos

1 Introducción

Capítulo 1

13 Código y Derecho de propiedad

Capítulo 2

51 La codiﬁcación nacional y sus condicionamientos provinciales en materia de derechos reales entre ﬁnales del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX

Capítulo 3

93 Propiedad y registro: un especial condicionamiento local a la codiﬁcación argentina

Capítulo 4

125 Territorio provincial y propiedad privada en Córdoba a ﬁnes del siglo XIX

Capítulo 5

161 Apropiación del espacio, construcción y redeﬁnición del derecho de propiedad

Capítulo 6

199 La implementación del marco normativo de las leyes 1881 y 1885 en las comunidades indígenas de Córdoba

253 Conclusión

259 Fuentes y bibliografía

283 About the Author