The codification of commercial laws in Latin America in the xixthc entury took into account not only foreign elements, but also local laws, developed from the Spanish legal heritage. This process was not developed by each country on an individual basis in Latin America, but each of them took advantage of the experience of others, located either in Latin America or in Europe. Neither it was done disorderly, because there were families of codes and consequently heads of those families. The Chilean Commercial Code (1865) is an original work, which contains local and foreign elements, as was the standard practice then. It was used for others Latin American countries which took its elements and merged them with other influences. Therefore, was placed as the head of one of the Latin American commercial codes families in the xixth century, together with the Spanish Code (1829).
Keywords:
codification - commercial codes - sources - families and heads of commercial codes
Concha Márquez de la Plata, S. (2010). Fuentes, orden y familias de códigos. La codificación del derecho comercial de Chile, en el contexto de Latinoamérica en el siglo XIX. Revista Chilena De Historia Del Derecho, (22), Pág. 1189–1201. https://doi.org/10.5354/rchd.v0i22.22161
