CLOVIS BEVILAQUA AND THE BRAZILIAN CIVIL CODE

Authors

Anyda Marchant, Member of the Virginia Bar; Law Library of Congress

Abstract

Clovis Bevilaqua is a monument in the history of Brazilian law. His death on July 26, 1944, closed the door on an epoch. When he began his career in the eighties, Brazilian law, with the exception of the commercial code, was uncoordinated and outmoded. Now. Brazil is in a period of very active work on the recodification of its laws and their adaptation to the needs of modern life. Not all of this change is the work of one man, but Bevilaqua was the principal lingering representative, among the lawyers, of the intellectual movement that accompanied the setting up of the Republic in 1889.

Recommended Citation

Anyda Marchant, CLOVIS BEVILAQUA AND THE BRAZILIAN CIVIL CODE, 43 Mich. L. Rev. 970 (1945).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol43/iss5/6