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The abbreviations of major Codes are:
Código Civil (Cod. Civ.)
Código de Comercio (Cod. Com.)
Código Penal (Cod. Pen.)
Código Procesal Civil y Comercial de la Nación (Cod. Proc. Civ. Y Com. Nac.)
Código Procesal Penal de la Nación (Cod. Proc. Pen. Nac.)
3.0 Jurisprudence
Cite cases by the parties’ names [plaintiff’s and defendant’s last name (and, optionally, first
initial], separated by “c/” in quotes, the court (including the section, “sala”, if appropriate; for
provincial courts add the name of the province), the name of the report, volume, year, and page
referenced. If the volume number contains the year, it need not be repeated:
3.1 Reports
“Peroni c/ Gomez” CNCiv., sala B, LL, 1997-D, 123.
The official report of judicial decisions is Colección Oficial de Fallos de la Corte Suprema de
Justicia de la Nación (abbreviated as “Fallos”). It only contains federal Supreme Court
decisions and is cited by abbreviated name, volume number, and page referenced:
Fallos, 45, 967.
Authors and practitioners mainly use unofficial reports, including Revista Jurídica Argentina --
La Ley (LL); El Derecho (ED); and Jurisprudencia Argentina (JA). All of them report both
federal and provincial cases:
3.2 Courts
LL, 1976-E, 658.
The abbreviations of Federal Courts are:
National Supreme Court: Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación (CSJN)
National Criminal Court: Cámara Nacional de Casación Penal (CNCP)
Court of Appeals for Administrative matters: Camara Nacional de Apelaciones en lo Contencioso
Administrativo (CFed)
Lower Federal Courts: Juzgado Federal (Juzg Fed)
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