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navigation, search  The Legal system of Argentina is a Civil law
legal system. The two pillars of the Civil system are the
Constitution of Argentina (1853) and the Civil Code of Argentina
(1871).  The Argentine Constitution of 1853 was an attempt to
unite the unstable and young country of the United Provinces of
the Rio de la Plata under a single law, creating as well the
different organisms needed to run a country. The constitution
was finally approved after failed signatory attempts in 1813
(see Assembly of 1813), 1819 and 1831 (Pacto Federal).  The
Civil Code was written by Argentine jurist Dalmacio Vélez
Sársfield, and started being effective on January 1, 1871.
Beyond the influence of the Spanish legal tradition, the
Argentine Civil Code was also inspired by the Draft of the
Brazilian Civil Code, the Draft of the Spanish Civil Code of
1851, the Napoleonic code and the Chilean Civil Code among
others. The sources of this Civil Code also incl