PERFIL JURÍDICO DE LA MUJER EN EL FUERO DE ALCARAZ

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  • Agustín Bermúdez Aznar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/j7821
Keywords: mujer, fuero de Alcaraz, siglo XIII

Abstract

The reading of the Municipal Fuero of Alcaraz may easily allow an approach to the legal profile of the XIIIth Century castilian woman. The inspiration for the woman is the christian married woman. Thus, her marriage, her motherly rights and duties and even her interests in the family heritage are all matters regulated by the Fuero. Her legal situation as a probable future widow is also established in the Fuero and her expectations over any possible inheritance are subject to her agreed marriage economic régime. In the penal law the Woman of Alcaraz is considered perpetrator and victim of a wide range of crimes, from political or religious crimes to sexual crimes or crimes against the person.The insults, slander and acts of violence caused to her had established the resulting penalties. The role of the woman in the legal proceedings is truly limited. Along the criminal procedure the main question for which her presence is required is to establish her guilt or innocence, using different probatory systems depending on the nature or seriousness of the crime committed. In the civil procedure her presence was only required in the case of her husbands absence and lack of payment. The Fuero does not pay much attention to other femenine prototypes, like the one represented by jewish or moors women

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Bermúdez Aznar, A. (1996). PERFIL JURÍDICO DE LA MUJER EN EL FUERO DE ALCARAZ. Murcian Medieval Miscellany, (19-20), 27–44. https://doi.org/10.6018/j7821
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