Abstract:With the present study, it is aimed to investigate the historical origin and the development of the necessary re-examination institute into the Brazilian civil procedural law, with emphasis in its juridical nature, and, at the end, assess the institute"s constitutionality and convenience in the current normative and social context. The present study remind us, at baseline, about the inquisitor system of the Lusitanian penal procedural from the medieval period which would had appeared under the name "ex officio… Show more
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