Regime giuridico dello straniero e albinaggio: il contributo della canonistica alla scientia iuris dell’età intermedia

Here it concerns the so-called right of ‘albinaggio’, which allowed the King or the Lord (according to ages and countries) to collect the inheritance of the unnaturalized foreigner, who died in the territory subject to his dominion. The opposition exercised by the Church will be fundamental against the ‘albinaggio’. In 1169 Alexander III had spoken against this consuetudo and, by direct intervention of the papal curia, a similar measure was taken by Emperor Frederick II in 1220: the constitutio Omnes peregrini. This constitutio will then be inserted as Authentica in the Codex of Justinian, becoming the object of the interpretatio of the scientia iuris of intermediate age