The Usatges of Barcelona
Subtitle: The Fundamental Law of Catalonia (Middle Ages Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780812215359
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Law, Medieval; History - General History; History: World; Spain; Medieval; Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; History; Catalonia; Law; Sources
First sentence: Before the rules of customary law were decreed, judges customarily ruled that all offenses, if they could not be overlooked, had to be settled for all time by oath, judicial battle, or ordeal of boiling or freezing water with the utterance of the following words: "I swear to you by God and these Holy Gospels that these offenses which I have committed against you, I thus did within my rights and by your negligence."