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Family, law, and inheritance in America : a social and legal history of nineteenth-century Kentucky /
"Yvonne Pitts explores inheritance practices by focusing on nineteenth-century testamentary capacity trials in Kentucky in which disinherited family members challenged relatives' wills. These disappointed heirs claimed that their departed relative lacked the capacity required to write a va...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. 'Parental justice': inheritance and obligation in families
- 2. 'My black family': manumissions and freedom in inheritance disputes
- 3. Arbiters of sanity: medical experts and jurists
- 4. Physical impairments and degenerate minds: the body as evidence
- 5. A special power: women's testamentary capacity.