set of privileges, town charter

(Latin forum, Portuguese foral, Catalan furs). Charter of immunities and freedoms granted to towns by royal or other authority. Occasionally elaborated by the later twelfth century into full municipal codes of law.

Fuero (Spanish) is a Spanish legal term and concept. The word comes from Latin forum, an open space used as market, tribunal and meeting place. The same Latin root is the origin of the (French) word for and the (Portuguese) words foral, forais and foro; all of these words have related, but somewhat different, meanings.