Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800 - Brossura

Spring, Eileen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0807846422 ISBN 13: 9780807846421

Casa editrice: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997

Riassunto

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 under which--had they prevailed--40 percent of English land would have been inherited or held by women. Current ideas of family development portray female inheritance as increasing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but Spring argues that this is a misperception, resulting from an incomplete consideration of the common-law rules. Female rights actually declined, reaching their nadir in the eighteenth century. Spring shows that there was a centuries-long conflict between male and female heirs, a conflict that has not been adequately recognized until now.

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L'autore

Eileen Spring is an independent scholar who lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Product Description

Eileen Spring presents an 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 argues that one of the principal and determinative features of upper-class inheritance was the virtual exclusion of females from land holding. Tracing the gradual nullification of common law rules under which 40 per cent of English land would have been inherited or held by women, Spring seeks to makes possible a fuller understanding of the social history of land law.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: The University of North Carolina Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0807846422
• ISBN 13: 9780807846421
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 214
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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