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The Civil Code of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (Spanish: Código Civil de la República Oriental del Uruguay) is a systematic collection of Uruguayan laws designed to comprehensively deal with the core areas of private law such as for dealing with business and negligence lawsuits and practices.

This civil code was originally published on 1 January 1868, it was the work of Tristan Narvaja, inspired in a project by Eduardo Acevedo. Important sources were the Roman law, Spanish legislation and canon law, as well as the Chilean Civil Code, the Spanish Civil Code, texts by Augusto Teixeira de Freitas and Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield, the Code Napoléon and many others. In 1995 it was updated.

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Uruguayan Civil Code Archived 2013-12-13 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)

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Aeronautical 1974 1942 Childhood and Adolescence 2004 1934 Civil Civil Procedure 1988 1878 Criminal 1934 1889 Criminal Procedure 2017 1997 1980 1878 Customs 2014 1984 Military Criminal Military Criminal Procedure Mining 1982 1943 1884 Organization of Courts Organization of Military Courts Rural 1941 1875 Tax Trade Water
In italics the codes that have been repealed or replaced.
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