El corpus legislativo de Navarra en la etapa de los Austrias (siglos XVI y XVII)

Abstract

The constitution of the legislative corpus drafted by the Courts of Navarre in the xvi and the XVII centuries followed a process which, starting out in the form of handwritten compilations, found its best form of dissemination via printed editions. Two aims casn be discerned in the dissemination of the printed editions. Two aims can be discerned: firstly, that of reporting legislation through the Books of laws of each assembly and, secondly, that of selecting the regulations to be reported in line with the interests of the Kingdom or the authorities delegated from Castile. It is by no means strange to discover that the compilations commissioned by the Kingdom (Síndicos, Chavier, and the xviii century that of Elizondo) omit certain...