Fuero Juzgo

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Fuero Juzgo is a medieval legal code of the Visigothic kingdom in Iberia that became a foundational source of law in Old Spanish and later Castilian jurisdictions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical document
law code
legal code
medieval legal code
alsoKnownAs Forum Iudicum (in Latin tradition)
linked to: Forum Iudicum

Fuero de los Jueces
linked to: Fuero Juzgo
appliesToJurisdiction Iberian Peninsula
Kingdom of Castile
linked to: Castile

Old Spanish kingdoms
linked to: medieval Spain
basedOn Liber Iudiciorum
Visigothic Code
linked to: Lex Visigothorum
circulatedAs vernacular translation of Visigothic Code
contains judicial procedures
penal provisions
royal legislation
rules on contracts
rules on marriage
rules on succession
countryOfOrigin Visigothic Kingdom
hasLegalStatus codified law
written law
historicalRole foundation of medieval Castilian legal tradition
transmission of Visigothic law into Romance-language practice
influenced Castilian law
Old Spanish law
municipal fueros in Castile
language Latin
Old Spanish
legalDomain civil law
criminal law
family law
inheritance law
procedural law
property law
legalSystem Visigothic law
linked to: Lex Visigothorum
legalTradition Germanic law influence
Roman law influence
preservedIn medieval manuscripts
regionOfOrigin Iberia
subjectOf historiography of Spanish law
medieval legal scholarship
timePeriod Middle Ages
title Fuero Juzgo
usedAs source of law
suppletory law code
territorial fuero
usedUntil late Middle Ages

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Old Spanish notableWorkInLanguage Fuero Juzgo
fiscal (Crown prosecutor) legalSystem Castilian law
subject linked to: fiscal (crown prosecutor)
linked to: Fuero Juzgo
Lex Visigothorum alsoKnownAs Fuero Juzgo
Lex Visigothorum laterVernacularVersion Fuero Juzgo (Old Spanish translation)
linked to: Fuero Juzgo
Liber Iudiciorum translatedAs Fuero Juzgo in Old Spanish
linked to: Fuero Juzgo
Cuarta Partida legalSystem Castilian law
linked to: Fuero Juzgo
Quinta Partida legalSystem Castilian law
linked to: Fuero Juzgo
Fuero Juzgo title Fuero Juzgo
Fuero Juzgo alsoKnownAs Fuero de los Jueces
linked to: Fuero Juzgo