Pedro Barbosa (jurist)

For the football player, see Pedro Barbosa.

Pedro Barbosa (1530/35-1606) was a Portuguese jurist and the leading representative of the ius commune and the usus modernus in Portugal.

Teaching law at Coimbra in 1557-64, he came to hold the highest judicial offices, including with the Inquisition, as judge of the Casa da Suplicação and the Desembargo do Paço, and as Chanceler-mor do Reino. Barbosa also wrote numerous tracts on family law, inheritance law and procedural law.

References

Scholz, Johannes-Michael (2001). "Pedro Barbosa". In Michael Stolleis (ed.). Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (in German) (2nd edition ed.). München: Beck. p. 62. ISBN 3-406-45957-9.