Succession Law, Practice and Society in Europe across the Centuries
Editors: di Renzo Villata, Maria Gigliola (Ed.)
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- Encompasses various aspects of family law, testamentary law and legal history
- Covers an extensive period, from the Middle Ages to the present
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This book presents a broad overview of succession law, encompassing aspects of family law, testamentary law and legal history. It examines society and legal practice in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present from both a legal and a sociological perspective. The contributing authors investigate various aspects of succession law that have not yet been thoroughly examined by legal historians, and in doing so they not only add to our knowledge of past succession law but also provide a valuable key to interpreting and understanding current European succession law.
Readers can explore such issues as the importance of a father’s permission to marry in relation to disinheritance, as well as inheritance transactions and private, dynastic and cross-border successions. Further themes addressed by the expert contributors include women’s inheritance rights, the laws of succession for the prince in legal consulting, and succession in the Rota Romana’s jurisprudence.
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The Right of Troncalidad in Castilian Inheritance Law in the High Middle Ages
Pages 1-17
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Family Succession Wars: Succession Norms and Practices in Medieval and Modern Catalonia
Pages 19-75
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Actiones Hereditariae. Claims in Favour of, and Against Heirs in Medieval Ius Commune
Pages 77-104
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The Ius Decretalium and the Development of the Law of Succession in Medieval Europe. Some Examples from Denmark and Sweden (XII–XIII C.)
Pages 105-147
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Testamentary Freedom in Law and Practice in Medieval Sweden: Conflicts and Coexistence
Pages 149-165
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Succession Law, Practice and Society in Europe across the Centuries
- Editors
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- Maria Gigliola di Renzo Villata
- Series Title
- Studies in the History of Law and Justice
- Series Volume
- 14
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-76258-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-76258-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-76257-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-09445-4
- Series ISSN
- 2198-9842
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 640
- Topics
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