Family, law, and inheritance in America : a social and legal history of nineteenth-century Kentucky / / Yvonne Pitts.
"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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 203 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.