The Code of Cuenca : : Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castilian Frontier /

The Code of Cuenca : : Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castilian Frontier / / ed. by James F. Powers, James F. Powers.

Sometime around 1190, King Alfonso VIII of Castile granted a royal charter to the community of Cuenca, a Castilian frontier town recently recaptured from the Muslims and resettled by Christians. The royal charter was in the form of a law code, or fuero. Fueros, which evolved from short lists of exce...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Powers, James F.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©2000
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Poem and Prologue
  • I. Concession of the Code and Outline of Its Privileges
  • II. Statutes Regarding Property Holdings
  • III. How Grain Fields Should Be Guarded
  • IV. Care of the Vineyards
  • V. Demarcation of Orchards
  • VI. Aggression with Illegal Weapons
  • VII. Public Land of the Council
  • VIII. Concerning Mills
  • IX. Marriages and Wills
  • X. The Right of Succession of Children and Parents
  • XI. No One Should Pay the Pecuniary Penalty of Homicide for a Man Killed During Sports
  • XII. Insults to Men and Many Other Violent Acts
  • XIII. No One Should Respond for Counseling
  • XIV. The Penalties for Murderers: The Challenged
  • XV. Surety Bondsmen
  • XVI. The Election of the Iudex and the Alcaldi
  • XVII. Concerning the Manner in Which Each One Obtains His Rights
  • XVIII. The Citations
  • XIX. Bondsmen
  • XX. Witnesses and Accusers
  • XXI. Testimony of Responsible Intermediaries or of Substitute AIcaldi
  • XXII. Fighters of Judicial Combat
  • XXIII. Debtors Who Flee from the City
  • XXIV. Those Who Appeal to the Court of the Alcaldi on Friday
  • XXV. The Manner of Pleading and the Witnesses
  • XXVI. The Festival Days on Which No One Should Be Allowed to Take Sureties or Cite to Judgment
  • XXVII. Those Who Appeal to the King
  • XXVIII. The Collectors of Money for the Council
  • XXIX. Cases Between Christians and Jews
  • XXX. The Government of the Military Expedition
  • XXXI. The Emergency Military Muster
  • XXXII. The Code of Purchase, of Sale, and of Collateral of Real Estate
  • XXXIII. The Code of Pledging and of Sales
  • XXXIV. Dogs
  • XXXV. The Code of the Hunters
  • XXXVI. The Code of Hired Workers
  • XXXVII. The Code of the Herders
  • XXXVIII. The Loyalty of All Wage Earners
  • XXXIX. The Code of the Guards Who Watch the Livestock
  • XL. Those Who Find Something Should Proclaim It, and the Corroborators
  • XLI. The Code of Guests [and Other Matters]
  • XLII. Craftsmen
  • XLIII. The Equalization of the Parishes
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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