El Código Civil en México: entre la forma y la tradición

This article examines, through examples, the various ways in which the theoretical and normative sources that converged in the historical process of codification in Mexico, were transplanted and received. In addition, it argues that the peculiarities of Mexican pluralism turned the compiling and codifying tasks of the European absolutist completeness (completezza) project especially difficult; due to the complexity of the social and historical dynamics of the Mexican context, its open and less formalist culture, the entry of the Napoleonic, German, Portuguese, and Chilean codes were nuanced and adapted in a unique way, as well as specific concepts such as person, civil registry, secular marriage, legal business, possession, etc., by reason that, in many respects, they went against the practices of population.