Victorino de la Plaza was an Argentine politician and lawyer who served as President of Argentina from 9 August 1914 to 11 October 1916.
de la Plaza with the presidential sash.
The Civil Code of Argentina was the legal code in force between 1871 and 2015,
which formed the foundation of the system of civil law in Argentina. It was written by Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield, as the culmination of a series of attempts to codify civil law in Argentina. The original code was approved on September 25, 1869, by the passage of Law 340, and became active on January 1, 1871. With numerous subsequent modifications, it continued to be the foundation of Argentine civil law for more than a century. On 1 August 2015, the Civil Code of Argentina was replaced by a new Civil and Commercial Code - Código Civil y Comercial de la Nación.
Congress building in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Front page of the Siete Partidas.
Victorino de la Plaza, president of Argentina, was one of Vélez Sársfield's assistants.
President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento pressed for the correction of mistakes in the civil code.