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Que he o Codigo civil? : Ao IIlmo. Sr. José Joaquim Rodrigues de Bastos, dignissimo deputado ás Cortes Extraordinarias e Constituintes da naçaõ portugueza

by: Cardoso da Costa, Vicente José Ferreira, 1765-1834

Publication date: 1822

Topics: Civil law -- Portugal, Civil rights -- Portugal, Civil law -- Portugal -- Codification, Imprint 1822

Publisher: Lisboa: : Na Typogr. de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo.

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Portuguese

IX, [1], 197, [1], 156, VIII pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : 21 cm (4to)

Cardoso da Costa wrote his work in response to a prize offered by the Cortes in 1822 for designing a civil code

"Projecto para se fazer o novo codigo civil, e criminal para os quatorze estados da America---dirigido a todos os Americanos---para hum anonymo": pages 190-197

Signatures: A-2C⁴ (B1, 2B3, 2C4 verso blank) 1-19⁴ 20² *⁴

Errata: pages I-VIII, 6th count

Folded plates illustrating, in the form of a tree, the obligations of and rights of justice. They follow the text and the second folded plate is engraved by T.J. de Carvalho

Purchase; 18-449