The Usatges of Barcelona
Subtitle: The Fundamental Law of Catalonia (Middle Ages Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: February 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780812232561
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History of specific subjects; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Legal History; Spain And Portugal - History; Legal Reference / Law Profession; History: World; Spain; Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; History; Catalonia; Law; Law, Medieval; 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."