Belchior Febos, also called Phoebus (died 1632) was one of the leading Portuguese

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s of his time. In the early 17th century, Febos practiced law before

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's supreme civil and administrative courts, the ''Casa da Suplicação'' and the ''Desembargo da Paço''. His principal work, the two-volume ''Decisiones Senatus Regnus Lusitaniae'' (1619), a compilation of commented decisions of the supreme courts, was among Portugal's most significant contributions to the European scholarly discourse about the ''

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''.

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* Year of birth missing 1632 deaths 17th-century Portuguese lawyers {{Portugal-law-bio-stub