Institutes of the Civil Law of Spain

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ...should not have any within the third degree, in favour of the king, LI. 1 & 6. tit. 7. P. 7. That by the law of the Recopilacion, and according to the one which the text cites, the advocate, who by his malice, fault, negligence, or unskilfulness, shall occasion damage to his clients, is bound to make it good to them, and to pay double the amount besides; although this penalty of paying double the amount is not in practice. That the advocate who shall recapitulate what is already written in the process, ought to pay 600 maravedis, L. 4. tit. 16. Lib. 2. Rec.: or L. 1. tit. 14. Lib. 11., Nov. Rec. That in practice they are also admonished and fined, &c. according to their excesses and defects. 9 By L.IS. tit. 17. P.7., says Palaciot, the adulterer was punished with death, and the adulteress with whipping (azoles), and reclusion (in a monastery), and loss of dote and arras. That by L. 1. tit. 20. Lib. 8. Rec, which is L. 1. tit. 28. Lib. 12., Nov. Rec, both of them, and their respective property (if they have no children) ought to be placed in the power of the husband to do what he shall please with them; but that, at present, the punishment is reduced to banishment, or confinement in a house of correction (j/retidio), as regards the adulterer; and reclusion (confinement in a monastery), as regards the adulteress. That as respects the relations, it was never permitted them to kill the adulterers as the text erroneously cites; that it is only the father who may kill with impunity his daughter guilty of adultery; but for this it is necessary that he find her committing the adultery in his house, or in that of his son-in-law; and that he kill, at the same time, the adulterer, L.14. tit. 17. P. 7. That the text also erroneously cites...