Family, law, and inheritance in America : a social and legal history of nineteenth-century Kentucky / Yvonne Pitts.
Publisher's description: Yvonne Pitts explores inheritance practices by focusing on nineteenth-century testamentary capacity trials in Kentucky in which disinherited family members challenged relatives' wills. These disappointed heirs claimed that their departed relative lacked the capacit...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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Table of Contents:
- "Parental justice" : inheritance and obligation in families
- "My black family" : manumission and freedom in inheritance disputes
- Arbiters of sanity : medical experts and jurists
- Physical impairments and degenerate minds : the body as evidence
- A special power : women's testamentary capacity.