The Spanish civil code in the comparativist sequence of the foundations of European law

Abstract

In my book “Fundamentos del Derecho Europeo” I had tried the French Civil Code (Fund., 300 ss.) and the German BGB (Fund., 317 ss.), as legislative systems that have had one greater influence than any other codes in the subsequent career of European law. With this work I intend to remedy that omission, because for researchers engaged in European legal unification, and especially for Spanish jurists, our Civil Code is a tool that no we can do without, as neither the comparativists which necessarily must analyze the different existing codes in Europe, which recognizes the Commission and European Parliament a “common European legal conscience”..