Ferdinand III of Castile ordered that the code be adopted and observed by his subjects, and had it translated into the Spanish language as the Fuero Juzgo.
The Visigothic Code is a body of law from the Visigothic Kingdom of Spain, known variously as the Liber Iudiciorum, Forum Iudicum or Lex Visigothorum, organized into twelve books covering judicial procedure, marriage, crime and property. Its most cited royal promulgation is associated with King Chindasuinth and his son Recceswinth, who issued an enlarged version around 653 to 654 CE binding equally on Visigothic and Hispano-Roman subjects, ending the prior legal separation between the two populations. It drew on the earlier Breviary of Alaric, a Roman-law compilation for Rome's subjects under Visigothic rule. In the thirteenth century, Ferdinand III of Castile had it translated into Spanish as the Fuero Juzgo, extending its influence deep into medieval Iberian law.
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Erac. 642 to 654 CE per Wikipedia (Chindasuinth then Recceswinth); the Lex Visigothorum lineage is traced further back by other scholarship to Leovigild (569 to 586) and ultimately the Codex Euricianus under Euric (466 to 484) 2 Sources disagree on the origin point: Wikipedia credits King Chindasuinth's 642 to 643 initiative, enlarged and published by his son Recceswinth around 653 to 654; the University of Cologne's Bibliotheca legum traces the Lex Visigothorum lineage further back, to King Leovigild (569 to 586) initiating it, with roots in the still-earlier Codex Euricianus under King Euric (466 to 484). Both readings are recorded rather than reconciled by guesswork. Legal Status
Legal Status (category)Historical / No Longer in Force 1 Promulgated ByKing Chindasuinth, enlarged and published by his son King Recceswinth 2 Era
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The Visigothic Code (Latin: Forum Iudicum, Liber Iudiciorum, or Book of the Judgements; Spanish: Fuero Juzgo), also called Lex Visigothorum (English: Law of the Visigoths), is a set of laws begun by king Chindasuinth (642-653 AD) of the Visigothic Kingdom in his second year of rule (642-643) that sought to provide common legal status between his Visigothic and Spanish-Roman subjects.
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The Visigothic Code (Latin: Forum Iudicum, Liber Iudiciorum, or Book of the Judgements; Spanish: Fuero Juzgo), also called Lex Visigothorum (English: Law of the Visigoths), is a set of laws begun by king Chindasuinth (642-653 AD) of the Visigothic Kingdom in his second year of rule (642-643) that sought to provide common legal status between his Visigothic and Spanish-Roman subjects.
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WikipediaOverview section
King Chindasuinth... began [the code]... in his second year of rule (642-643).
Later Spanish Influence section
ordered that the code be adopted and observed by his subjects, and had it translated... into the Spanish language, as the Fuero Juzgo.
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