Ius commune as a foundation of the national legal system. A review of its content

Resumen

Since it can be noted that our legal system pressuposes a category, the ius commune, this article aims to specify its current content. After reviewing and discarding its eventual identifi cation with the Civil Code, the general principles of law as of the Constitution, we propose as probable interpretation to relate it with legal dogmatic, as well with the concepts it has constructed and developed through the history of certain legal institutions.