Family, Law, and Inheritance in America - A Social and Legal History of Nineteenth-Century Kentucky

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

Product details

• Authors: Yvonne Pitts, Yvonne (Purdue University Pitts
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2013
• EAN: 9781107035508
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03550-8
• No. of pages: 213
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous