Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda was a prominent Brazilian jurist, judge, diplomat and professor of Law at the Federal University of Pernambuco.
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Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda was a prominent Brazilian jurist, judge, diplomat and professor of Law at the Federal University of Pernambuco. His main work, the Tratado de Direito Privado, a sixty-volume collection that covers topics ranging from contracts to inheritance, has left a deep and lasting influence on Brazilian law and its descriptive doctrine. He occupied the 7th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1979, until his death.
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Lived 1892 to 1979 · aged 87
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