O COMMON LAW E O DIREITO BRASILEIRO: UM OLHAR CRÍTICO SOBRE O DECRETO 848/1890 E A ESQUECIDA DECISÃO DE 1902 DO SUPREMO TRIBUNAL FEDERAL

Abstract:
The   research   aims   to   solve   the   following
problem:   what   are   the   historical   normative
restrains of the old Brazilian Criminal Process
that exercise influence today within the scope of
the intricate relationship between the models of
written legislation and the common law system
in Brazil? In order to answer the question, we
have set the following objectives: firsty, to deal
both with legal normative sources, in particular
with  Decree  no.  848/1890,  and  with  the  brief
insertion  of  Brazil  in  the  common  law  model.
Secondly,  to  research  the  judicial  normative
sources  from  the  judgment  of  civil  appeal  no
745   and   the   embargoes,   whose   judgments
were issued by the Brazilian Supreme Court on
respectively  June  6,  1902  and  September  30,
1904, and thirdly, to verify the conditions raised
by  the  Supreme  Court  to  establish  a  common
law  orientation  in  the  Brazilian  legal  system.
The paper is justified to the extent that, in Brazil
today, the position of the judge who creates the
law (judge made law) is highly criticized, as it
conflicts with the model of the Roman-Germanic
written  legislation.  Although  critics  may  be
correct  in  their  views,  most  of  them  ignore
certain  historical  normative  premises.  We  use
an  inductive  research  method  of  investigation
followed  by  the  critical  dialectical  method  of
legal history.

Keywords: Common  Law,  Brazilian  criminal
procedure,  judgment  of  civil  appeal  no  745,
Decree 848/1890; history of the process