The Civil Code of Catalonia (in
Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
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: ''Codi Civil de Catalunya'') is the main codified law of
civil law in force in
Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy.
Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...
, adopted in 2002 and organized into six books.
History
The civil law of the
Principality of Catalonia
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, created over time during the
Middle Ages and
early modern period, survived the suppression of Catalan institutions and laws that took place after the defeat in the
War of the Spanish Succession in 1716. The
Decrees of Nueva Planta, promulgated by the
King of Spain
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,
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* Philip V of Macedon (221–179 BC)
* Philip V of France (1293–1322)
* Philip II of Spain, also Philip V, Duke of Burgundy (1526–1598)
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, respected this law while simultaneously abolishing the institutions and the other rights of the Principality. However, as the
Catalan Courts
The Catalan Courts or General Court of Catalonia ( ca, Corts Catalanes or ) was the policymaking and parliamentary body of the Principality of Catalonia from the 13th to the 18th century.
Composed by the king and the three estates of the realm ...
(the parliament) were abolished, the law remained without modifications for the next two centuries.
During the 19th and 20th centuries, and despite the enactment of a new Spanish Civil Code,
Catalan nationalists successfully protected their separate civil law, though it was not until 1960 that the laws began to be compiled. The "Compilation of the Special Civil Law of Catalonia" (Spanish: ''Compilación de derecho civil especial de Cataluña'') was approved in 1960 and, when Catalan
autonomy
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was restored in 1980, the
Parliament of Catalonia ended the first phase of compilation; it approved law 13/1984, which adapted the compilation to democratic
post-Franco Spain, as well as adapting several new special laws.
During the last years of the 20th century, the Parliament began the process of codification of the civil law. In this spirit, in 2002 it approved the "First Book of the Civil Code of Catalonia." The other books were approved over the course of the following decade. The Sixth Book was approved in 15 February 2018, ending the codification of Catalan civil law.
See also
*
Basque and Pyrenean fueros
References
External links
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