LOPEZ DE PALACIOS RUBIOS, Joannes.

by Joannes Lopez De Palacios Rubios

£3,250 · Offered by Sokol Books

.A good copy of the first and only edition of this important commentary on the Leyes de Toro - a revolutionary set of laws for the Kingdom of Castile, some still recognized today. They were applied and retained way into the C19, as part of the legal systems of former Spanish colonies such as Louisiana, Texas and Trinidad. These 83 laws were debated in 1505 in the city of Toro, in Castile, and approved by a committee of major Spanish jurists, according to instructions left in the will of Queen Isabella, who wished to modernize the Castilian justice system. On this committee was Juan López de Palacios Rubios (1450-1524), trained at Salamanca and known as El Doctor for his canon law expertise. He famously wrote the Requerimiento (1513) - the declaration of the Spanish monarchy seizing of New World territories, which was read to the native populations to inform them of the conquerors rights. The present work provides the text (in Castilian), followed by Rubios commentary (in Latin), for each ley de Toro , which joined three previous sets of laws: the Partidas and ordinance of Alcalá (1343), and the Royal Ordinance (1496). The leyes de Toro were introduced to regulate the forms to be observed in making wills; to establish rules relative to testamentary successions, and to successions ab intestato ; to fix the donations which a father or mother might make of a part of their estate to some of their children to the prejudice or others, and the alimony due from the father to

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