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The Old Law of Bizkaia (1452) : introductory study and critical edition / [compiled, edited, and annotated] by Gregorio Monreal Zia ; translated by William A. Douglass and Linda White ; preface by William A. Douglass.
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Basque classics series ; no. 1.
- Basque classics series ; no. 1
- Language:
- Basque
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Spain--Vizcaya--Sources.
- Law.
- Spain--Vizcaya.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 359 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Reno, Nev. : Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, [2005]
- Summary:
- In 1452, Bizkaians assembled at the Oak of Gernika and approved the Fuero Viejo de Bizkaia (the Old Law of Bizkaia) one of Europe's most important yet little known medieval legal codes. Its laws encompassed an extraordinary range of individual and collective liberties, anticipating the 18th-century Declarations of Rights contained in the constitutions of the U.S. and France. It was extraordinarily "modern" in both spirit and letter and attracted the attention and admiration of John Adams and William Wordsworth. Its influence survives to the present day, underpinning Bizkaian and Basque claims to their own political identity within the Spanish state. Distributed for the Center for Basque Studies.
- Contents:
- A geopolitical overview
- Juridical romanization, Castillian royal law, and Bizkaian law
- Antecedents of the Old Law (Fuero Viejo)
- Fundamental reasons for elaborating the Old Law (1452)
- Writing the Old Law
- Transcriptions of Old Law texts
- Editions of the Old Law
- The need for a critical edition of the Old Law
- The language of the Old Law
- An Old Law of Albedrío
- The personal scope of the Old Law : hidalgos and labradores
- The territorial scope of the Old Law : the singular problem of the villas
- The seigniory of Bizkaia's Foundational Pact
- The community
- The lord and his oath
- The relationship between the community and its lord : the pase foral
- The administration of justice
- Penal law
- Legal procedure
- The nature of property
- The family, matrimony, and matrimonial rights in property
- Inheritance
- From the Old Law to the New Law (Fuero Nuevo).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-321) and index.
- Contains:
- Vizcaya (Spain). Fuero Viejo. English.
- ISBN:
- 1877802530
- 1877802522
- OCLC:
- 58604550
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