Reducing Law to a legal instrument: not every Right is a law

Abstract

The text aims to outline the influence of nineteenth-century codification in the concept of Law. For such, it seeks to determine the moment Law begins to be reduced into the words and sentences of a legal document (law), especially the Code. This context requires a particular view of the legal sphere to the point of breaking away from certain experiences found in Law history, especially those referring to the variety of sources. Therefore, Law was reduced to the legal phenomenon. It refers to equaling law to the legal phenomenon by means of a codifying technique and legal thinking developed in the Enlightenment period.