Argentina Law No. 26.994 Civil and Commercial Code of the Nation - 2014

Law 26.994
Approval
Sanctioned: October 1, 2014
Promulgated: October 7, 2014
The Senate and Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation gathered in Congress, etc. sanction
with force of
Law:
ARTICLE 1 - The National Civil and Commercial Code is approved, which as Annex I integrates the
present law.
ARTICLE 2 - Annex II that integrates this law is approved, and the replacement of the
articles of the laws indicated in it, by the texts that are expressed for each case.
ARTICLE 3 - The following regulations are repealed:
a) Laws Nros. 11.357, 13.512, 14.394, 18.248, 19.724, 19.836, 20.276, 21.342 —except
of its article 6 -, 23.091, 25.509 and 26.005;
b) Section IX of Chapter II - Articles 361 to 366 - and Chapter III of Law 19.550, to 1984;
c) Articles 36, 37 and 38 of Law 20.266 and its amendments;
d) Article 37 of Decree 1798 of October 13, 1994;
e) Articles 1 to 26 of Law 24.441;
f) Chapters I —except for the second and third paragraphs of article 11— and III —with
exception of the second and third paragraphs of article 28— of law 25.248;
g) Chapters III, IV, V and IX of Law 26.356.
ARTICLE 4 - The Civil Code, approved by Law 340, and the Commercial Code are repealed,
approved by laws Nros. 15 and 2.637, except articles 891, 892, 907, 919, 926, 984 to 996,
999 to 1003 and 1006 to 1017/5, which are incorporated as articles 631 to 678 of law 20.094,
empowering the national Executive Power to renumber the articles of the aforementioned law by virtue of the
incorporation of the preceding rules.
ARTICLE 5 - The laws that currently integrate, complement or are incorporated
the Civil Code or the Commercial Code, except as established in article 3 of this law,
they remain in force as laws that complement the Civil and Commercial Code of the Nation
approved by article 1 of this.
ARTICLE 6 - Any reference to the Civil Code or the Commercial Code contained in the legislation
in force must be understood as referring to the Civil and Commercial Code of the Nation which is hereby
approves.
ARTICLE 7 - This law will enter into force on August 1, 2015.
(Article replaced by Article 1 of Law No. 27.077 BO 19/12/2014)
ARTICLE 8 - Be available as complementary norms of application of the Civil Code and
Comercial de la Nación, the following:
First. "In the cases in which at the time of entry into force of this law
decreed personal separation, any of those who were spouses can request the
conversion of personal separation sentence into divorce bond.
If the conversion is requested by mutual agreement, the judge who intervened in the
separation or the domicile of any of the petitioners, at their option; is resolved without
any procedure, with the approval of the petition.
If requested unilaterally, the judge who intervened in the separation or the judge is competent
domicile of the ex-spouse who does not request the conversion; the judge decides after hearing for three (3)
days.
The conversion resolution must be recorded in the record that took note of the separation. ”
Second. "They are considered just reasons and do not require judicial intervention to change
first name and surname, the cases in which there is a simple or full adoption sentence and even if the
it would not have been annulled, as long as it is proven that the adoption has as antecedent
the separation of the adoptee from his biological family through state terrorism. ”
(Corresponds to article 69 of the Civil and Commercial Code of the Nation).
ARTICLE 9 - Provide as transitory norms of application of the Civil and Commercial Code
of the Nation, the following:
First. “The rights of indigenous peoples, in particular the community property of
land they traditionally occupy and those other suitable and sufficient for development
human, will be subject to a special law. " (Corresponds to article 18 of the Civil Code and
Commercial of the Nation).
Second. "The protection of the unimplanted embryo will be subject to a special law."
(Corresponds to article 19 of the Civil and Commercial Code of the Nation).
Third. "Those born before the entry into force of the Civil and Commercial Code of the Nation by
assisted human reproduction techniques are children of the one who gave birth and of the man or woman who
You have also given your free, prior and informed consent to the
procedure that gave rise to the born, having to complete the birth certificate before the
Civil Registry and People Capacity when only a filial link with the person who gave birth and
always with the consent of the other mother or the father who is not included in said act. ”
(Corresponds to Chapter 2 of Title V of the Second Book of the Civil and Commercial Code of the
Nation).
Quarter. "The responsibility of the national State and its officials for the facts and omissions
committed in the exercise of their functions shall be subject to a special law. " (Corresponds to
articles 1764, 1765 and 1766 of the Civil and Commercial Code of the Nation).
ARTICLE 10. - Contact the national Executive Power.
GIVEN IN THE SESSION ROOM OF THE ARGENTINE CONGRESS, IN BUENOS AIRES, THE FIRST DAY
OF THE MONTH OF OCTOBER OF THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN.
- REGISTERED UNDER Nº 26.994 -
BELOVED BOUDOU. - JULIAN A. DOMINGUEZ. - Lucas Chedrese. - Juan H. Estrada.
ANNEX I
PRELIMINARY TITLE
CHAPTER 1
Right
ARTICLE 1 .- Sources and application. The cases that this Code governs must be resolved according to the
applicable laws, in accordance with the National Constitution and the rights treaties
humans in which the Republic is part. For this purpose, the purpose of the
rule. The uses, practices and customs are binding when the laws or the interested parties are
refer to them or in situations not legally regulated, provided they are not contrary to
right.
ARTICLE 2 .- Interpretation. The law must be interpreted taking into account its words, its
purposes, analogous laws, provisions arising from treaties on rights
human, legal principles and values, consistent with the entire system.
ARTICLE 3 .- Duty to resolve. The judge must resolve the matters that are submitted to his
jurisdiction by a reasonably founded decision.

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