Yvonne Pitts

Family, Law, and Inheritance in America

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Produktbeschreibung

Yvonne Pitts explores nineteenth-century Kentucky inheritance practices by focusing on testamentary capacity trials in which disinherited family members challenged relatives' wills.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9781107035508
• ISBN-10: 1107035503
• Artikelnr.: 37293846

Autorenporträt

Yvonne Pitts is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Purdue University. She received a Filson Fellowship at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky, and has been a fellow at J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Dr Pitts has been published in The Journal of Women's History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'Parental justice': inheritance and obligation in families
2. 'My black family': manumissions and freedom in inheritance disputes
3. The arbiters of sanity: medical experts and jurists
4. Physical impairments and degenerate minds: the body as evidence
5. A special power: women's testamentary capacity
Epilogue.