C-491 de 1995
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Reporting justice Antonio Barrera Carbonell
✓Claimant Hernan Dario Velasquezgomez
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- Causales taxativas
- Causales no taxativas
- Facultad del legislador para determinar causales
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- en nombre del pueblo y por mandato de la Constitucion,
- RESUELVE:
- Declarar EXEQUIBLE la expresion acusada del inciso 1deg del articulo 140 del Codigo de Procedimiento Civil, subrogado por el art. 1, numeral 80, del decreto 2282 de 1989, con la advertencia expresa de que dicho articulo regulo las causales de nulidad legales en los procesos civiles. En consecuencia, ademas de dichas causales, es viable y puede invocarse la prevista en el art. 29 de la Constitucion, segun el cual, "es nula de pleno derecho, la prueba obtenida con violacion del debido proceso", que es aplicable en toda clase de procesos.
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