Enforcement of monetary judgments in VII partidas

Abstract

The «VII Partidas» called code, is the greatest legislative work of the ius commune. In them is collected, in Spanish language, the main precepts received from Roman and Canonical law forming a corpus that would result from regulatory application until the promulgation of the Civil Code in 1889. The object of this work is to analyse the considerations of items relating to the enforcement of monetary judgments and comparing them with the regulation of the pignus in causa iudicati captum established by Antoninus Pius for the Roman process. Consideration of the Glossae of Gregorio López analyzes reflections which, in his day, caused by the Alfonso’s Code.