La regulación jurídica de los caminos en los ordenamientos históricos vascos (siglos XIII-XIX)

Abstract

This study analyses the origin and development of the legislation that regulated the roads of the three Basque territories of Spanish Vasconia (Araba, Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia), both in terms of security and the establishment of their road infrastructure (opening, maintenance, cleaning, responsibility for their management, etc.) from the 13th century until the loss of the fueros in 1876. How the influence of Castilian Law in its early days, especially in matters of security, gave way to their own regulatory development, promoted by their territorial councils and the municipalities themselves in a similar and parallel way, until the institutionalisation of the fully matured systems of management throughout the nineteenth century.