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Studies about property rights have only recently started to attract the attention of economic historians in Argentina. In this paper, focusing upon normative aspects, it is our purpose to analyze changes and continuities produced within legal conceptions concerning the rights of property, family and heritage rights by the second half of the 19th century. Debates and speeches from politicians, lawyers, and owners, will be analyzed, as well as the expression they found in two key works: the Rural Code of the Province of Buenos Aires, from 1865, and the Civil Code from 1869 (promulgated in 1871), which stated -with different shades of meaning- private property as absolute, individual and inalienable. The balance between continuity/break up of conceptions and speeches posed from the law field will also allow to analyze its impact and projection over the configuration of the Argentinian society during the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper studies patterns of family and kinship in the rural areas of the province of Buenos Aires in the 19* century . It intends, to approach to the role of women in the transmission of kinship networks and that of kin as a frame of material and emotional protection in a context of intense male mobility and proliferation of matrifocal households. It also pursues, the analysis of the sexual and family ethos prevalent at that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the Law, it is possible make a difference between subjective rights (individual's faculty) and objective rights (society's order). The Law is not exclusively one or the other; but rather an order which connects both parts. This mechanism shows difficulties because the movement makes them part of a complex and delicate system. This paper attempts to observe this mechanism working; to understand the construction of this order as part of the new needs of certain groups and see how they take shape giving birth to a new conception of family and inheritance during the first half of XIX century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an enquiry into the strategies for access to land displayed by the Russo family, rural producers who, by the end of the nineteenth Century settled as cattle tenants on southern areas of the Territorio Nacional de La Pampa. Through the analysis of sources belonging to the private archive of the family and other public documents, we reconstructed different moments in the life of the Russos, marked by the strategies carried through to economically settle themselves and maximize opportunities by combining tenancy-property, stability factors and the scale of tenancy. In diverse areas for two generations. This case study, focused upon the family and located in a zone with characteristics that differ from those sketched in the bulk of dominant historiography, allows to shed light on issues concerning the access to land by pampean rural producers at the end of the nineteenth Century and the first decade of the twentieth, and thus, discuss some traditional postulates, besides from establishing the existence of regional variations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]