Furs of Valencia

The Furs of Valencia were the laws of the Kingdom of Valencia through most of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, promulgated by King James I of Aragon in 1261 at the newly established Valencian parliament, whose members the king then swore to uphold. Rather than a single document, the Furs comprised a series of charters that functioned as a constitutional framework defining the balance of power among the royal house, the nobility, the clergy and the judiciary, drawing on earlier codes such as the Usages of Barcelona and the Furs of Aragon. They remained in force for more than four centuries until Philip V abolished them through the Nueva Planta decrees of 1707. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/