Research Catalog

Title

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.

Publication

Reno, Nev. : Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Monreal Zia, Gregorio.
• Douglass, William A.
• White, Linda, 1949-
• Vizcaya (Spain). Fuero Viejo. English.

Description

359 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Basque classics series ; no. 1

Uniform Title

Basque classics series ; no. 1.

Subject

• Geschichte 1452
• Law > Vizcaya > Sources

Genre/Form

Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-321) and index.

Contents

A geopolitical overview -- Juridical romanization, Castilian 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).

ISBN

• 1877802530 (hardcover)
• 1877802522 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005008119

OCLC

58604550

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library