Common law and the supression of the Fueros de Valencia

Authors

  • Federico Martínez Roda

Keywords:

regional charters, Partidas, ius commune, suppressions of the regional charters, civil law restoration

Abstract

The suppression of the regional charters («Furs»), but above all the fact that the valencian civil law was not returned despite the offer made by king Philip V, has been an issue of a great interest in the field of historiography, however, it has not found its final explanation yet. This article maintains the idea that the most important legal institutions that impacted on the population changed little after the decree of 29th June 1707, since the suppressed law («Furs») and the new regulation («Partidas»), were both ius commune, so there was no need to retrieve the regional civil law. From then on, the onetime kingdom of Valencia has become a region ruled without problems by the Spanish common civil law.

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