Book Name: Succession Law, Practice and Society in Europe Across the Centuries

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The instance of Catalonia is deserving of specific consideration as here, not at all like in the remainder of the Iberian Peninsula, the Visigothic custom was safeguarded, since there was not a savage political separation, for example, had been found in the north or west of the Peninsula, given that the Catalan domains were moved moderately easily from the Visigothic government to the Frankish one. In any case, the way that it constituted a fringe an area of the Carolingian Empire implied that its political binds with France were consistently debilitated, through a procedure of feudalization which was not contrary, yet really integrative of the customary Visigothic legitimate framework, albeit, normally, with the presentation of remarkable Modi fi cations according to the Visigothic enactment matrix.34 Many Visigothic lawful foundations in this way developed inside and were, as Bastier shows as to the will, “… le resultat d’Or empire costume travaillant sur le Vieux affectionate wisigothique”.35 Indeed when the issue of the social association was settled through an oligarchical model in which social condition decided lawful situation inside the noble and medieval framework, it represented no prevention to utilize the Visigothic will discard patrimony in the afterlife