Alfonso María Acevedo (Sevilla, 1737-1798), was an eighteenth-century jurisconsult, born in Seville and librarian of San Isidro in Madrid.
He left four dissertations, one on the language of the brutes, another on the way of writing notes of the ancients, another on matters of canon law and another very remarkable about the need to shorten civil law.
He published a work of Jurisprudence in 1770, De reorum absolutione, in which he proposes the suppression of torment to force the prisoners to declare and left the titled Idea of a new legal body unfinished. This work established an important controversy on torture, giving rise to the Defense of Torture of Dr. Pedro de Castro.
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