Overview
- Offers a broad overview of succession law in Europe
- Encompasses various aspects of family law, testamentary law and legal history
- Covers an extensive period, from the Middle Ages to the present
Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Law and Justice (SHLJ, volume 14)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
Keywords
- European Succession Law
- Family Law
- Legal History
- Testamentary Law
- Inheritance in Europe
- Family Succession Wars
- Development of the Law of Succession in Medieval Europe
- Succession Law according to Jacques Cujas
- lack of father's permission to marry as cause for disinheritance
- Consilia and Dynastic succession in Modern Europe
- Women’s inheritance rights in Liberal Italy
About this book
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.
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Book Title: Succession Law, Practice and Society in Europe across the Centuries
Editors: Maria Gigliola di Renzo Villata
Series Title: Studies in the History of Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76258-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76257-9Published: 27 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09445-4Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76258-6Published: 19 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2198-9842
Series E-ISSN: 2198-9850
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 640
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Legal History, European Law