Un apunte sobre los principios de personalidad y territorialidad del Derecho visigodo

Abstract

The present study tries to remember, in general lines, the European controversy raised around the personality and territoriality of Visigothic Law. In particular, following the publication of the article "Nationality and Territoriality of Law in the Visigothic Period" by D. Alfonso García-Gallo in the AHDE of 1936-1941. In this article the professor at the Central University of Madrid defended the revolutionary theory of the territoriality of the Visigothic laws since its inception, an approach that would be criticized in later years. Possibly, the absence or the lack of conservation of sources in the early Visigothic times (until the reign of Leovigildo) is the cause of this controversy.