Florencio García Goyena

Florencio García Goyena (1783 in Tafalla, Navarre – 1855) was a Spanish jurist.

García Goyena studied law in Madrid and Salamanca before serving as legal counsel to the Cortes of Navarra and the governors of the provinces of Léon, Granada and Zaragoza.

Back in Spain, he served as fiscal of Burgos and as official in the provinces of Navarra, Guipúzcoa and Zaragoza.

He chaired a commission that produced, in 1851, a draft civil code for Spain, most of it written by García Goyena.

Although the code was not adopted due to the strong opposition of leading regional families, who saw their power base threatened by the proposed harmonisation of regional inheritance and property laws, it was the basis of the codification later accomplished by Alonso Martínez in 1888/89.