FUERO

(fy-a’rd), a Spanish word signifying jurisdiction, law, privilege, and applied historically to the written charters of particular districts and towns. In 1833 a civil war broke out in the Basque provinces, in a ertion oft the fueros of that district, which lasted ten years, and was pacified only by the formal recognition of the Basque privileges in 1844 by the Queen and Cortes of Spain. The Basque fueros, however, were finally abrogated in 1876 as a result of the Car list rising.