Relativization of the intended anti-romanism of aragonian civil law

Abstract

Among the historical antecedents of Aragonese civil law, the influence, mainly, of Roman, Visigoth, Frank and Alto-Aragonese customs is detected. Traditionally, Aragonese law has wielded its anti-Romanism, since some of its most representative institutions are foreign to Roman law, in the same way that some Roman legal institution has not been accepted in historical Aragonese law, nor does it exist in its current law. However, we cannot ignore that the current Aragonese Law is the result of a historical trajectory in which the Roman-canonical incidence is more than considerable, which allows to sustain, without thereby abjuring its peculiarity and identity stamp, the overcoming of the antagonistic dialectic between Roman law and Aragonese civil law, even more if we take into account the need to rebuild European legal science against the hard work of unifying European private law..