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Title Nordic Inheritance law through the ages : spaces of action and legal strategies / edited by Marianne Holdgaard, Auður Magnúsdóttir, Bodil Selmer
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 418 pages) : illustrations
Series Legal history library, 1874-1793 ; volume 38
Legal history library ; v. 38.
Contents Introduction / Marianne Holdgaard, Auður Magnúsdóttir 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. Arnórsdóttir -- Inheritance among the Bjarkøy 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 / Már Jónsson -- 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 Dørum -- 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. Arnórsdóttir, John Asland, Knut Dørum, Thomas Eeg, Ian Peter Grohse, Marianne Holdgaard, Astrid Mellem Johnsen, Már Jónsson, Mia Korpiola, Gabriela Bjarne Larsson, Auður Magnúsdóttir, Bodil Selmer, Helle I. M. Sigh, and Miriam Tveit"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 05, 2020)
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
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Holdgaard, Marianne, editor
Auður Magnúsdóttir, editor.
Selmer, Bodil, editor.
LC no. 2020024832
ISBN 9789004435582
9004435581