Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800
(Part of the Studies in Legal History Series)
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Eileen Spring presents a fresh interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy. In a work that recasts both the history of real property law and the history of the family, she finds that one of the principal and determinative features of upper-class real property inheritance was the exclusion of females. This exclusion was accomplished by a series of legal devices designed to nullify the common-law rules of inheritance...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807846422
ISBN13:9780807846421
Release Date:February 1997
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:214 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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