Family, law, and inheritance in America : a social and legal history of nineteenth-century Kentucky / / Yvonne Pitts.
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Pitts, Yvonne. Family, law, and inheritance in America [electronic resource] : a social and legal history of nineteenth-century Kentucky / Yvonne Pitts. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 2013. xiii, 203 p. : ill., maps. Cambridge historical studies in American law and society Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-200) and index. Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. 'Parental justice': inheritance and obligation in families; 2. 'My black family': manumissions and freedom in inheritance disputes; 3. The 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; Epilogue. "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 valid will. These inheritance disputes criss-crossed a variety of legal and cultural terrains, including ordinary people's understandings of what constituted insanity and justice, medical experts' attempts to infuse law with science, and the independence claims of women. Pitts uncovers the contradictions in the body of law that explicitly protected free will while simultaneously reinforcing the primacy of blood in mediating claims to inherited property. By anchoring the study in local communities and the texts of elite jurists, Pitts demonstrates that 'capacity' was a term laden with legal meaning and competing communal values about family, race relations and rationality. These concepts evolved as Kentucky transitioned from a conflicted border state with slaves to a developing free-labor, industrializing economy"-- Provided by publisher. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. Inheritance and succession Kentucky 19th century. Wills Kentucky 19th century. Electronic books. ProQuest (Firm) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=1357363 Click to View |
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Family, law, and inheritance in America [electronic resource] : a social and legal history of nineteenth-century Kentucky / Yvonne Pitts. |
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