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Constitutional review ruling (C)May 31, 2000Full bench

C-641 de 2000

The official text of this ruling is in Spanish and is shown as published by the Colombian authorities.

Reporting justice Fabio Morón Díaz

✓Claimant Pilar Estrada Gonzalez

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Topic · hard data
Igualdad De Los Hijos. Legítimos, Extramatrimoniales Y Adoptivos
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Topics and subtopics of the ruling

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Derechos Del Testador
  • Límites a libertad
  • Límites constitucionales
Igualdad De Los Hijos
  • Legítimos, extramatrimoniales y adoptivos
Indignidad En Sucesion
  • Solicitud de declaración judicial
Asignaciones Forzosas
  • Implicación
  • Límite a libertad de testar
Testador
  • Disposición de parte de bienes a favor de no legitimarios
10 topics · 13 subtopics · source: case-law reporter's topic index
Case-law reporter's summary (what was argued and decided, in prose)

C.c.

Arts. 1226 parc 1241 1244 1245 1250 1253 y 1255 parciales 158 1261 y 1274.

Asignaciones forzosas.

Legitimas y cuarta de mejoras.

Exequible salvo una expresion.

Case-law reporter's text · normalized for reading (all caps → sentence case)
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What it decided

Holdings on Ley 84/73. Hard data, verified against the operative part — citable.

Art. 1226Ley 84/73UPHELD
Art. 1241Ley 84/73UPHELD
Art. 1244Ley 84/73UPHELD
Art. 1245Ley 84/73UPHELD
Art. 1250Ley 84/73UPHELD
Art. 1253Ley 84/73UPHELD
Art. 1255Ley 84/73UPHELD
Art. 1258Ley 84/73UPHELD
Art. 1261Ley 84/73UPHELD
Art. 1274Ley 84/73UPHELD
Art. 1226Ley 57/87UPHELD
Art. 1241Ley 57/87UPHELD
Art. 1244Ley 57/87UPHELD
Art. 1245Ley 57/87UPHELD
Art. 1250Ley 57/87UPHELD
Art. 1253Ley 57/87UPHELD
Art. 1253Ley 57/87STRUCK DOWN
Phrase struck down«naturales»
Art. 1255Ley 57/87UPHELD
Art. 1258Ley 57/87UPHELD
Art. 1261Ley 57/87UPHELD
20 holdings · source: operative part of the ruling
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Operative part (Resuelve)

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See the operative part (4 points)
  1. en nombre del pueblo y por mandato de la Constitución,
  2. R E S U E L V E:
  3. Decláranse EXEQUIBLES los artículos 1226, 1241, 1244, 1245, 1250, 1253, 1255, 1258, 1261, y 1274 del Código Civil Colombiano, salvo la palabra "naturales" del inciso
  4. primero. del artículo 1253, que se declara INEXEQUIBLE.
Verbatim text · source: operative part of the ruling
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