The Judicial Precedent in the Brazilian Legal System

The legal systems deriving from the civil law system, law is used as the primary source of law, based on legal positivism, including the Brazilian legal system, with a tradition dating back to antiquity and with strong influence of French law. In contrast, the common law system, also known as the En...

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Autores: Dallefi, Nayara Maria Silvério da Costa, Roque, Ana Cristina Lemos
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI)
Repositorio:Revista de Teorias da Justiça, da Decisão e da Argumentação Jurídica
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.indexlaw.org:article/1701
Acceso en línea:http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistateoriasjustica/article/view/1701
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Judicial Precedent. Brazilian Legal Order. Common Law. Civil Law
Precedente Judicial. Ordenamento Jurídico Brasileiro. Common Law. Civil Law
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Sumario:The legal systems deriving from the civil law system, law is used as the primary source of law, based on legal positivism, including the Brazilian legal system, with a tradition dating back to antiquity and with strong influence of French law. In contrast, the common law system, also known as the English system, to designate common law in England, by virtue of local customs, is a judge-made-law. Based on a historical-bibliographic research, the present article aims to present the two systems above and the question of judicial precedent in the Brazilian legal system for the purpose of demonstrating the distinction between the two systems.