El poder normativo de los municipios de la Vasconia peninsular (siglos XIV-XIX)

Abstract

The Basque Territory Ordinance Law had been brewing since the14th century to regulate spaces not governed by the Law of issued charters. It arose as a written and agreed-upon Law, being developed together with customary rights to regulate the new matters of the population entities that had created them (anteiglesias, universidades or villas), and other matters subject to association with groups and individuals that shared interests with them, particularly those of an economic nature. What was an agreed-upon Right (which would never lose this nature), soon required royal confirmation, which gave priority to its application in the community. In particular, starting in the 16th century, important reviews were conducted, some of which systematic, that are of great value and interest when it comes to understanding the internal organisation and way of life of the communities that were governed and organised by their own Law until the 18th century, when the political organisation aspect of its Municipal Ordinances was replaced by the general provisions and Municipal Laws imposed by the State. That was when the role of the Ordinances was gradually replaced by the Regulations.