Nordic inheritance law through the ages : : spaces of action and legal strategies / / edited by Marianne Holdgaard, Auður Magnúsdóttir, Bodil Selmer.

• Superior document: Legal History Library ; Volume 38
• TeilnehmendeR: Holdgaard, Marianne,; Auður Magnúsdóttir,; Selmer, Bodil,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Legal history library ; Volume 38.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages – Spaces of Action and Legal Strategies explores the significance of inheritance law from medieval times to the present through topical and in-depth studies that bring life to historical and contemporary inheritance practices. The contributions cover three themes: status of persons and their options in the process of property devolution; wills, gift-giving and legal disputes as means to shape the working of the law; processes of inheritance legislation. The authors focus on instances where legal strategies of various actors particularly reveal inheritance law as a contested and yet constrained space of action, and somewhat surprisingly show similar solutions to family law issues dealt with in other Western European countries. Contributors are: Simone Abram, Gitte Meldgaard Abrahamsen, Per Andersen, Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir, John Asland, Knut Dørum, Thomas Eeg, Ian Peter Grohse, Marianne Holdgaard, Astrid Mellem Johnsen, Már Jónsson, Mia Korpiola, Gabriela Bjarne Larsson, Auður Magnúsdóttir, Bodil Selmer, Helle I. M. Sigh, and Miriam Tveit.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Marianne Holdgaard, Auður Magnúsdóttir and Bodil Selmer -- Legal identities : children and inheritance in Denmark from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century / Helle I.M. Sigh -- Guardianship of minors' property in Medieval Norse Law / Ian Peter Grohse -- Backwards inheritance in medieval Scandinavian law / Miriam Tveit -- Good for business : joint property and equal inheritance in Burgher Marriages in Stockholm, 1480-1530 / Gabriela Bjarne Larsson -- Born outside wedlock, then and now : when father does not accept you / Marianne Holdgaard -- Marital property and change in the donation culture of late-sixteenth and early seventeenth century Iceland / Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir -- Inheritance among the Bjarkøy descendants / Astrid Mellem Johnsen -- Virtue rewarded, disobedience, and vice punished : attitudes towards inheritance rights in early modern Swedish law and practice / Mia Korpiola -- Probate proceedings and inheritance in eighteenth-century Iceland / Már Jónsson -- Life companionship as an argument for inheritance rights : disputing Bona Vacantia with the Danish State / Bodil Selmer -- Inheriting kinship : Norwegian holiday property as relational practice / Simone Abram -- The right order of things : inheritance law in the Danish-Norwegian legal literature of the early modern period / Per Andersen -- The Odelsrett in Norway c. 1200-1800 : function and importance / Knut Dørum -- Gender-neutral succession law in Norway : a long and winding road / John Asland -- Do unmarried cohabitants have inheritance rights (in practice) in Denmark? / Gitte Meldgaard Abrahamsen -- Intestate succession and undivided estate : for spouses and cohabitants in Norway / Thomas Eeg.