The Llibre del Consolat de Mar: a medieval normative body in the Ius commune scope

Abstract

This study aims to address an always controversial issue, such as the reception of Roman law in the set of local laws and institutions -Iura propria-. In the case of the Llibre del Consolat de Mar, with the present research it is intended to contribute to determine the degree of reception of the Roman law -in particular through the Justinian Roman law-, and in the case that such reception is lesser than it is usually believed, this would mean that Ius commune did not always prevail over the own customs and practices of a specific area such as in the medieval western Mediterranean maritime law contained in this Llibre