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    <title>Old Law of Bizkaia (1452)</title>
    <subTitle>introductory study and critical edition</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Monreal Zia, Gregorio.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>White, Linda</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1949-</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Douglass, William A.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2005</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2005</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>359 p. maps, geneal. table 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>A geopolitical overview -- Juridical romanization, Castillian royal law and Bizkaian law -- Antecedents of the Old Law (Fuero Viejo) -- Fundamental reasons for elaborating the Old Law (1452) -- Writing the Old Law -- Transcriptions of Old Law texts -- Editions of the Old Law -- The need for a critical edition of the Old Law -- The language of the Old Law -- An Old Law of Albedrío -- The personal scope of the Old Law : hidalgos and labradores -- The territorial scope of the Old Law : the singular problem of the villas -- The seigniory of Bizkaia's Foundational Pact -- The community -- The lord and his oath -- The relationship between the community and its lord : the pase foral -- The administration of justice -- Penal law -- Legal procedure -- The nature of property -- The family, matrimony and matrimonial rights in property -- Inheritance -- From the Old Law to the New Law (Fuero Nuevo).</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">[compiled, edited, and annotated] by Gregorio Monreal Zia ; translated by William A. Douglass and Linda White ; preface by William A. Douglass.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-321) and index.</note>
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    <geographic>Spain</geographic>
    <geographic>Vizcaya</geographic>
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