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1870 · 60377 — 1870. Lima: Imp. del Estado 1870. Lima: Imp. del Estado 1870. Standard Commentary on Peru's 1852 Civil Code Fuentes Miguel Atanasio 1820-1880. Lama Miguel Antonio de la b. 1839. Codigo Civil del Peru Con Citas Notas y Concordancias. Lima: Imp. del Estado 1870. 450 pp. Octavo 8-1/4" x 5". Modern cloth bound hardcover printed paper title label to spine endpapers renewed. Moderate toning to text internally clean. Ex-library. Small inkstamp to half title. $350. First edition. The authors/editors Manuel Atanasio Fuentes and Miguel Antonio de la Lama compiled the Peruvian civil legislation adding citations notes cross-references and an appendix of laws decrees resolutions and other related regulations. Contains the text of the Peruvian Civil Code which was based on the Napoleonic Code and Castilian law from the colonial era with extensive notes and commentaries of Miguel Antonio de la Lama which include updated legislation digested judicial decisions and treaty provisions which made it a fundamental reference work for Peruvian jurists of the time. This 1870 edition was the first of what would become the standard reference commentary on the Peruvian Civil Code. The work was highly regarded and was reprinted multiple times reaching its sixth and final edition in 1928 before the 1852 code was finally replaced in 1936. It is an essential historical legal text for the study of civil law and the legal history of Peru in the 19th and early 20th centuries. OCLC locates 5 copies of the first edition in North American law libraries Harvard LA County Library of Congress University of Michigan University of Minnesota. Clagett A Guide to the Law and Legal Literature of Peru 30. unknown