In Spanish law. The name of a code of laws, more fully described as “Las Siete Partidas,” (“the seven parts,” from the number of its divisions,) which was compiled under the direction of Alphonso X., about the year 1250. Its sources were the customary law of all the prov-inces, the canon law as there administered, and (chiefly) the Roman law. This work has always been regarded aa of the highest authority in Spain and in those countries and states which bave derived their jurispru-dence from Spain
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
