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Abstract

These pages are dedicated to the socialization of a research experience in the Cordoba´s Court General File (Argentina). The research was oriented to the survey, systematization and analysis of the custodies and adoptions which were made in the civil and children courts of Cordoba´s city between 1975 and 1983. This project followed two main objectives: to establish the relationship of the biological and adoptive identity of the adopted children in those years, and the identification of possible unlawful appropriations related to the State of Terrorism. In this framework, this article aims to account for the hypotheses that were reached -after working with a complete documental batch- in respect with some judicial practices of that period related to identity right. Particularly, and as regards the approach of those practices at the moment of inquiring about the systematic plan of unlawful child appropriation developed during the last dictatorship in Argentina, we will attempt to show: first, that it was not necessary to forge the procedure of judicial management of children to obtain the substitution or suppression of their biological identity and, second, that the mechanisms that facilitated the inscription of children as own, worked inside judicial processes as well.