Nordic Inheritance Law Through the Ages : Spaces of Action and Legal Strategies.

Intro -- Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages: Spaces of Action and Legal Strategies -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Status of Persons and Opportunities for Action -- 1 Legal Identities: Children and Inheritance in Denmark from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century -- 2 Guardianship of Minors' Property in Medieval Norse Law -- 3 Backwards Inheritance in Medieval Scandinavian Law -- 4 Good for Business: Joint Property and Equal Inheritance in Burgher Marriages in Stockholm, 1480-1530 -- 5 Born Outside Wedlock, Then and Now: When Father Does Not Accept You -- Part 2: Wills, Gift-giving, Inheritance Practices and Disputes -- 6 Marital Property and Change in the Donation Culture of Late-sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-century Iceland -- 7 Inheritance among the Bjarkøy Descendants -- 8 Virtue Rewarded, Disobedience and Vice Punished: Attitudes towards Inheritance Rights in Early Modern Swedish Law and Practice -- 9 Probate Proceedings and Inheritance in Eighteenth-century Iceland -- 10 Life Companionship as an Argument for Inheritance Rights: Disputing Bona Vacantia with the Danish State -- 11 Inheriting Kinship: Norwegian Holiday Property as Relational Practice -- Part 3: Processes of Inheritance Legislation -- 12 The Right Order of Things: Inheritance Law in the Danish-Norwegian Legal Literature of the Early Modern Period -- 13 The Odelsrett in Norway c. 1200-1800: Function and Importance -- 14 Gender-neutral Succession Law in Norway: A Long and Winding Road -- 15 Do Unmarried Cohabitants Have Inheritance Rights (in Practice) in Denmark? -- 16 Intestate Succession and Undivided Estate: For Spouses and Cohabitants in Norway -- Index.

The articles in Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages - Spaces of Action and Legal Strategies explore the significance of inheritance law through the use of topical and in-depth studies that bring life to historical and contemporary Nordic inheritance law practices.

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