fueros

Aragonese was one that ran thus: _ "Que siempre que el rey quebrantose sus fueros, pudiessen eligir otro rey encora que sea pagano" _ (If ever the King should infringe our _fueros_, we can elect another King, even though he might be a pagan), and the preamble of the election ran thus:

Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

To the Conservatives, if the culture was to be preserved, the guardians of the culture were the Church and the military, both institutions having their jealously guarded "fueros" - special legal rights.

The Mex Files 2009

And we get an explanation of the ancient fueros, laws that granted the Basques certain rights and privileges in exchange for loyalty to the kingdom of Castile.

Found in Translation 2009

And we get an explanation of the ancient fueros, laws that granted the Basques certain rights and privileges in exchange for loyalty to the kingdom of Castile.

Found in Translation 2009

Among the ancient Spanish liberties which were restricted by the consolidating monarchy from age to age, the Basque fueros, or rights, were the oldest; they lasted quite to our own day; and although it is known to more ignorant men that these privileges

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

The Castilian rulers freely granted fueros (charters of self-government) to towns in the early stages of the Reconquest, and elements of local liberty appeared in municipal government in this period.

d. The Iberian Peninsula 2001

Minister BENITO JUÁREZ (1806–72) issued a law rescinding fueros.

1849 2001

In the captaincy general of Guatemala (Guatemala, San Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Chiapas), liberals campaigned for free trade, a more representative government, and the dissolution of fueros and monopolies.

i. Guatemala and Central America 2001

Conservatives called upon Santa Anna to restore “religion and fueros.

d. Mexico 2001

A constitution maintained military and ecclesiastical fueros, and Catholicism remained the official religion.

d. Mexico 2001