Notes about the legal capacity of city councils: A proposal for the Board's accountability for its acts of management

Abstract

This paper presents a discussion about the ability of municipalities to integrate procedural legal relationships. The aim of this study is to summarize the doctrinal understandings on the subject. Also, with the jurisprudence of the higher courts and describe the situations in which the Town Council recognizes procedural capacity. Using a pragmatic approach, this research pointed out some specific situations, with the intent to exemplify, in recurrent cases in the daily life of cities, the importance of the topic, and the perplexities of the solutions presented in our times, revisiting them and proposing new paradigms While it is necessary a further and deeper reflection on the subject.