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SUMMARY:The Siete Partidas: Europe's Earliest Law Codification - Jakob Sta
 gl\, Visiting Fellow\, Clare Hall
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DESCRIPTION:Our lunchtime talks at Clare Hall are open to all and take pla
 ce in the Clare Hall Meeting Room\, behind the Porter's Lodge. Talks last 
 around 35 to 40 minutes\, followed by a Q&A session with the presenter. Th
 e atmosphere is informal. Please feel free to bring your lunch with you\, 
 a selection of soft drinks will be available in the room. We look forward 
 to welcoming you to our college.\n\nAbstract: The Siete Partidas are a leg
 al code from the middle of the 13th\ncentury composed under the auspices o
 f King Alfonso X the Wise of\nCastile who was also king elect of Germany. 
 This codification\, written\nin medieval Spanish\, comprehends regulations
  of the Church (I)\, the\nCrown (II)\, legal procedure (III)\, marriage an
 d family (IV)\, legal\ntransactions like contracts (V)\, law of succession
 s (VI) and criminal\nlaw (VII). The Partidas are paramount amongst all oth
 er medieval legal\ncodes for their degree of abstraction and their compreh
 ensiveness.\nTough the Partidas were always relevant in Spain\, especially
  as a\nsubsidiary source of law\, they gained true importance in the New W
 orld\nwhere they became the common law of Latin America together with the\
 nextensive commentary by Gregorio López (1555) written in Latin.\nInsofar
  as the Partidas anticipate the age of codification in the 18th\ncentury f
 or their degree of abstraction and insofar as they were\ntranslated into v
 arious European languages and served as a basis for\nlegal teaching in var
 ious Mediterranean countries they can be called\nEurope’s first codifica
 tion.\n
LOCATION:The Meeting Room\, Clare Hall College\, Herschel Road
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