From Ordinances to legal norms: the trajectory of property rights in Brazil

Pereira, Gislene

doi:10.22296/2317-1529.rbeur.202105en

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Articles - Planning and Public Policies • Rev. Bras. Estud. Urbanos Reg. 23 • 2021 • https://doi.org/10.22296/2317-1529.rbeur.202105en copy

From Ordinances to legal norms: the trajectory of property rights in Brazil

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Abstract

This text presents the trajectory of the concept of property rights in Brazil. Identifying the Philippine Ordinances as the historical origin of the legal norms that govern property rights in Brazil, this paper recognizes the permanence and transformations of the concept over time. Through the analysis of key legal documents of a national scope, the text follows the transformation process of the concept of property, defining the moments of inflection. From within this scenario, the future of the concept is discussed, considering the conditions in which the growing urbanization in Brazil occurs. Lastly, it is questioned whether it is possible for the analyzed trajectory to incorporate use as a defining aspect of property relations.

Keywords:
Property; Land Use; Urban Law

Períod		Norms	Content	Situation of the land	Proof
Sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries		Phillipine Ordenances	Sesmarias as a form of access to land	Crown	use/possession
Nineteenth century	1822	Imperial Resolutions	Extinction of the sesmarias	Imperial
	1822	Royal Charters	Delimitation of the old sesmarias
	1824	Imperial Constitution	Delimitation of the old sesmarias
	1850	Land Laws	Legitimizing the existing possessions, maintaining effective cultivation as a criterion	Imperial lands put up for sale	Title deed of ownership
	1850	Land Laws	Purchase as a form of access to land	Imperial lands put up for sale
	1891	Constitution of the Republic	Full ownership	Private
Twenty Century	1916	Civil Code	Property, respecting the right of neighborhood
	1934	Constitution	Inclusion of collective interest as a limit to owning property
	1937	Constitution of the Estado Novo	Possibility of expropriation for purposes of public utility
	1946	Constituição	Social well-being as a limit to owning property
	1946	Constitution of the post-Estado Novo	Social well-being as a limit to owning propoerty
	1967	Constitution of the military period	Social function property
	1988	Citizen’s Constitution	Property as a social function
Twenty-first Century	2001	City Statute	Operacionalizing the social function

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[1] Gislene Pereira

Architect and urbanist at the Universidade Federal de Paraná (UFPR). She holds a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano e Regional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IPPUR / UFRJ), and a doctorate in Development and Environment from MADE/UFPR. She is a full professor on the Architecture and Urbanism course and on the Post-Graduate Program in Urban Planning (PPU) at UFPR. She is also a researcher on the theme of urban planning, with an emphasis on policies and instruments for financing urban development. Email: gislenepereira42@gmail.com