Spain. Sources And Development Of Law

RESUMEN

Edición del largo capítulo de Rafael Altamira sobre fuentes y evolución general del Derecho español, con énfasis en las instituciones jurídico-privadas,publicado, en lengua inglesa, en el volumen misceláneo A General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons, and Movements in Continental Legal, 1912. El estudio preliminar analiza las circunstancias de la obra, así como las relaciones entre el autor español y el responsable científico de la misma, Prof. John H. Wigmore (Northwestern University). Se recupera además la correspondencia cruzada entre ambos a propósito de esa publicación.


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Altamira en Chicago, Carlos Petit

Introduction. Factors and Periods

1. The Inadequacy of Existing Historical Accounts

2. General Influences and Traditional Periods in Spanish Legal History

3. Sketch of Legal Development by Periods from the Origins to the Present Day

Chapter I. Pre-National Period: to A.D. 1252. Successive Racial Layers in Spanish Law

Topic 1. Celtic-Iberian Foundations and Greek and Phoenician Colonies (to B. C. 200).

Topic 2. The Roman Rule (B. C. 200-A.D. 400)

Topic 3. The Germanic Invasions and visigothic Dominion (A.D. 400-700)

Topic 4. Christian and Moorish Kingdoms (A.D. 700-1300)

Topic 5. The Indigenous Groundwork of the Law in the 1200s

Chapter II. First Period: A.D. 1252-1511. The Christian Reconquest and the Political Unification of the Peninsula

Topic 1. Spread of the Justinian and Canon Law in Castile and León

Topic 2. Spread of the Justinian and Canon Laws in the other Kingdoms of the Peninsula

Chapter III. Second Period: A.D. 1511-1808. The Age of Absolute Monarchy

Topic 1. The Austrian Dynasty (1500s and 1600s)

Topic 2. The Bourbon Dynasty (1700-1808)

Chapter IV. Third Period: Since A.D. 1808 modern legal reforms