THE PERSON IN CIVIL LAW. ALL-TIME MATTERS AND THEN SOME MORE

Abstract

The concept of “person” is in the core of the Civil Law. However the legal literature has been concerned little and poorly to clarify its meaning and deepen into it. From the time of codification, the approach to the concept has been made through some technical issues that revolve around her, but that does not complete its true meaning. The study of the beginning and the end of the personality of the subject of law or the topics of “legal capacity” and “capacity to act” with its implications, have been the traditional issues, being added later the personality rights. Currently, these subjects must necessarily be completed with an overview of the legal system in which the idea of “person” acquires an autonomous meaning and it is further provided with a substancial value that the Constitution and the human rights international instruments recognize and guarantee.