Why is eighteen years old considered the legal age in Civil Spanish legal system?

Abstract

This study inquires about the historical process of transformation followed by Spanish law to set the precise time instant when an individual becomes fully govern conditions for its own existence.

In this article is found the key role played by the civil law tradition, particularly since the revival of its institutions through Las Partidas, as well as its subsequent evolution into formulas characterized  by a higher level of self-suff iciency, aimed at reducing or limiting age or ages legally considered  people from a civil point of view, as autonomous  subjects. These time fluctuations due justif ication found in multiple motivations and circumstantial political, legal, cultural and psychological.