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instanceOf historical document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
surface form: Forum Iudicum (in Latin tradition)

Fuero Juzgo
surface form: Fuero de los Jueces
appliesToJurisdiction Iberian Peninsula
Castile
surface form: Kingdom of Castile

medieval Spain
surface form: Old Spanish kingdoms
basedOn Liber Iudiciorum
Lex Visigothorum
surface form: Visigothic Code
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 Lex Visigothorum
surface form: Visigothic law
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 self-link
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 Fuero Juzgo
subject surface form: fiscal (Crown prosecutor)
this entity surface form: Castilian law
Lex Visigothorum alsoKnownAs Fuero Juzgo
Lex Visigothorum laterVernacularVersion Fuero Juzgo
this entity surface form: Fuero Juzgo (Old Spanish translation)
Liber Iudiciorum translatedAs Fuero Juzgo
this entity surface form: Fuero Juzgo in Old Spanish
Cuarta Partida legalSystem Fuero Juzgo
this entity surface form: Castilian law
Quinta Partida legalSystem Fuero Juzgo
this entity surface form: Castilian law
Fuero Juzgo title Fuero Juzgo self-link
Fuero Juzgo alsoKnownAs Fuero Juzgo
this entity surface form: Fuero de los Jueces