Spain and Portugal, المجلد 4Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1832 |
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accused adalid alcaldes Alfonso Alfonso el Sabio Alfonso VI almogavar ancient appear apud Aragon authority banished barons bishop called Casiri Castile Castilian Catalan Catalonia century charter chief Christian church Collectio compelled Compendio compurgation Cordova cortes council court crime criminal Cronica crown D'Herbelot death defendant deputies dignity dominion ecclesiastical Enrique III España Arabe España Sagrada faith favour Fernando Florez freeman Fuero Juzgo Hernando del Pulgar Histoire des Cortès holy honour Ibid Juan judge jurisdiction jury justice Justinian code kill king kingdom knight Koran latter laws Leon less Masdeu Mohammed Mohammedan monarch monk necnon noble oath offence ordeal owner Pandect passim Pedro penalty Peninsula Perez poet Portugal prelates prince privileges punishment receive 100 stripes reign royal Sancho Sempère señor Siete Partidas slave solidi Spain Spanish suffer thing Toledo towns tribunal twelve Valencia Wisigothic code writers
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الصفحة 19 - ... asked his opinion, he remained silent for some time, and when the reason of his silence was demanded he answered, " I am considering first whether it be better to speak or to hold my tongue.
الصفحة 60 - Franks inaugurated. The challenge resembles the defiance of the enemies of Hungary, hurled forth by the king on his coronation day. Then the adalid sheathed his sword ; and the king placed a pennon in his hand, saying, ' I grant unto thee that henceforward thou art to be an adalid.
الصفحة 61 - Due subordination was to be observed; for, 'as the wise ancients have said, that which is to be good must always rise from one good degree to a better degree ; so that a good peon may become a good almocaden, and a good almocaden may become a good almogavar trooper, and then a good adulid.
الصفحة 63 - And if he was not a true man, he might do much harm to both parties, as well to the captive as to the other who kept him in captivity ; and it was fitting that the alfaqueque should be a man of good substance, in order that, if he absconded from justice, his property might make good the injuries which he might have occasioned to the captive. The alfaqueque was necessarily on a good footing with the Moors ; and he would naturally have greater facilities, if he chose to secrete himself among them,...
الصفحة 111 - I killed him," the others were to "save themselves with twelve true burghers"—" los otros salvense con doce vecinos derecheros." It might happen, that none would confess the crime; and as all were then equally liable to suspicion, the relations of the dead man were at liberty to select any one...
الصفحة 104 - GaUicia, and great part of the country which afterwards constituted Old Castile, continued independent of the Visigoths, till the usurper Andica was subdued by Leovigild ; and it may be doubted whether such an incorporation of the two nations then took place as to deprive the Suevi of their ancient customs; and these probably became blended with the traditionary Gothic common law. No law or decree of council, from which the jus retractus could arise, is extant ; but this mischievous restriction,...
الصفحة 114 - People who were insensible to the nicer or conventional delicacies of reputation were taught to defer to public opinion, whose influence is more beneficial to society in checking the commission of bad deeds, than in stimulating to the performance of great ones. An inestimable value was given to unblemished character. To those who were of fair fame and good repute, trial by compurgation afforded an efficient protection against calumny and malice ; but to them alone. Notwithstanding the influence of...
الصفحة 109 - ... himself the twelfth.' These customs are taken from the general code. In peculiar districts, compurgation was so much in vogue, that compurgatrixes were allowed to female culprits. At Anguas, as well as in other towns, a woman charged with theft could defend herself by the oaths of a jury of other women. More whimsical was the Fuero of Cuenca, § which is passing strange, both for the spirit of the law and the terms in which it is expressed.
الصفحة 109 - Three thousand sueldos, according to the Fuero Viejo, were paid for dishonouring the palace of the king, or spoiling his castle ; and five hundred sueldos was the price of the head of the merino, or the composition for scandalizing him ; and every man who wished to save himself from the payment of these mulcts, was to defend himself by the oath of twelve men, for such was the usage of Castile in the old time.
الصفحة 109 - If perchance any husband suspected that his wife had planted horns | upon his head, ' although he was not able to prove the fact by evidence, the wife was to justify herself by swearing to her chastity with twelve good wives of the neighbourhood ; and if they pronounced her to be pure, her husband was bound to be persuaded that she was so, maugre all the suggestions of the green-eyed monster. The...