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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 the...

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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.
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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.

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