This paper tests the idea that concepts of property in English common law favoured male heirs in the primogeniture system of land inheritance and disadvantaged women upon marriage. A case study of wills in nineteenth-century Newfoundland demonstrates that instead of strict adherence to centuries of common-law tradition, both men and women in Newfoundland were more concerned with the support and maintenance of the family under the unique conditions of the Newfoundland economy. The male line of descent was subordinated to the immediate and long-term needs of the family through more egalitarian inheritance practices. These practices in tum sustained a mat rimonial property system that well pre-dated legislation to protect married women's prope...
The Napoleonic Civil Code adopted in 1804 dramatically changed rules of inheritance in France. It wa...
In most Canadian jurisdictions, default family property law regimes exclude gifts and inheritances f...
Research hypothesis was to use the Registers of Deeds for the North Riding of Yorkshire (held at Nor...
In Newfoundland, the passage of three married women's property acts between 1876 and 1895 occurred w...
This paper reports patterns of property holding by women and men in late nineteenth-century Ontario....
The Evolution of Women\u27s Rights in Inheritance explores the period shortly after the passage of t...
The effect of the law and practice relating to the ownership by and transmission of property by and ...
Married women's property law reform in the nineteenth century made it legally possible for wives to ...
Ontario’s current method for trying to ensure the fair distribution of an intestate’s estate, or the...
The evolution of the right of married women to own and control property in the western provinces was...
Between the 1820s and 1840s, the use of marriage contracts in Montreal changed. Firstly, over this p...
This study uses probate records to explore gender patterns in testamentary customs from 1800 to 1860...
Note:The English origin of the law in the Common law jurisdictions in Canada makes it mandatory for ...
When did marriage become strongly assortative? Is it a recent development, aconsequence of increased...
This study analyzes the inheritance strategies of testators in coastal lowcountry South Carolina fro...
The Napoleonic Civil Code adopted in 1804 dramatically changed rules of inheritance in France. It wa...
In most Canadian jurisdictions, default family property law regimes exclude gifts and inheritances f...
Research hypothesis was to use the Registers of Deeds for the North Riding of Yorkshire (held at Nor...
In Newfoundland, the passage of three married women's property acts between 1876 and 1895 occurred w...
This paper reports patterns of property holding by women and men in late nineteenth-century Ontario....
The Evolution of Women\u27s Rights in Inheritance explores the period shortly after the passage of t...
The effect of the law and practice relating to the ownership by and transmission of property by and ...
Married women's property law reform in the nineteenth century made it legally possible for wives to ...
Ontario’s current method for trying to ensure the fair distribution of an intestate’s estate, or the...
The evolution of the right of married women to own and control property in the western provinces was...
Between the 1820s and 1840s, the use of marriage contracts in Montreal changed. Firstly, over this p...
This study uses probate records to explore gender patterns in testamentary customs from 1800 to 1860...
Note:The English origin of the law in the Common law jurisdictions in Canada makes it mandatory for ...
When did marriage become strongly assortative? Is it a recent development, aconsequence of increased...
This study analyzes the inheritance strategies of testators in coastal lowcountry South Carolina fro...
The Napoleonic Civil Code adopted in 1804 dramatically changed rules of inheritance in France. It wa...
In most Canadian jurisdictions, default family property law regimes exclude gifts and inheritances f...
Research hypothesis was to use the Registers of Deeds for the North Riding of Yorkshire (held at Nor...