The Code of Kalantiaw

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Location: Code of Kalantiaw Monument, Batan, Aklan

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Former status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1957

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text: 

THE CODE OF KALANTIAW

DATU BENDAHARA KALANTIAW, THIRD CHIEF OF PANAY BORN IN AKLAN, ESTABLISHED HIS GOVERNMENT IN THE PENINSULA OF BATANG, “AKLAN SAKUP.” CONSIDERED THE FIRST FILIPINO LAWGIVER, HE PROMULGATED ABOUT 1422 A PENAL CODE NOW KNOWN AS THE CODE OF KALANTIAW CONTAINING 18 ARTICLES. DON MARCELINO ORFILA OF ZARAGOZA, SPAIN, OBTAINED THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT FROM AN OLD CHIEF OF PANAY AND WAS LATER TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH BY RAFAEL MURVIEDO Y ZAMANEY.

THIS MARKER IS ERECTED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF BATAN, AKLAN ON 1 JUNE 1956.

Current status: Delisted

Basis of delisting: Resolution No. 12, S. 2004 of the National Historical Institute (NHI) declared that the Code of Kalantiao has no valid historical basis.

Delisted by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Date delisted: 25 November 2004