Succession law, practice and society in Europe across the centuries / Maria Gigliola di Renzo Villata, editor.

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 v...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Renzo Villata, Maria Gigliola di (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
Series:Studies in the history of law and justice ; v. 14.
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Summary: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.--
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9783319762586
3319762583
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 26, 2018)