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Title:

Nordic inheritance law through the ages : spaces of action and legal strategies / edited by Marianne Holdgaard, Au©ʻur Magnusdottir, Bodil Selmer.

Publisher:

Koninklijke Brill NV,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xii, 418 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Inheritance and succession--Scandinavia--History.
Husband and wife--Scandinavia--History.
Guardian and ward--Scandinavia--History.
Marital property--Scandinavia--History.
Wills--Scandinavia--History.
Guardian and ward.
Husband and wife.
Inheritance and succession.
Marital property.
Wills.
Scandinavia.
History.

Other Authors:

Holdgaard, Marianne, editor.
Au©ʻur Magnusdottir, editor.
Selmer, Bodil, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Marianne Holdgaard, Au©ʻur Magnusdottir 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. Arnorsdottir -- Inheritance among the Bjark©ıy 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 / Mar Jonsson -- 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 D©ırum -- 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.

Summary:

"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 themes: status of persons and options in the process of property devolution; wills, gift-giving and legal disputes as means to shape the working of the law; processes of inheritance legislation. The authors focus on instances where legal strategies of various actors particularly reveal inheritance law as a contested and yet constrained space of action, and somewhat surprisingly show similar solutions to family law issues dealt with in other Western European countries. Contributors are: Simone Abram, Gitte Meldgaard Abrahamsen, Per Andersen, Agnes S. Arnorsdottir, John Asland, Knut D©ırum, Thomas Eeg, Ian Peter Grohse, Marianne Holdgaard, Astrid Mellem Johnsen, Mar Jonsson, Mia Korpiola, Gabriela Bjarne Larsson, Au©ʻur Magnusdottir, Bodil Selmer, Helle I. M. Sigh, and Miriam Tveit"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Legal history library, 1874-1793 ; volume 38

ISBN:

900442735X
9789004427358

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1157353545

LCCN:

2020024831

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)