Manuel Lorenzo de Vidaurre (1773-1841) was a Peruvian jurist, politician and essayist who began as a reformist proposing solutions to colonial problems short of independence, in his books Cartas americanas and Plan del Peru, before accepting the case for separation from Spain in 1823. Simon Bolivar appointed him to a twelve-member commission in 1825 to draft a civil code for Peru, and his own 1836 draft code broke with colonial legal tradition by placing a surviving spouse ahead of collateral relatives in intestate succession.
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