Research Catalog

Title

Inheritance matters : kinship, property, law / edited by Suzanne Lenon and Daniel Monk.

Publication

• Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Hart Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lenon, Suzanne
• Monk, Daniel

Description

viii, 326 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book shows how inheritance is, and has always been, more than the set of legal processes for the distribution of wealth and property upon death. It makes a compelling case for placing the social and legal practices of inheritance centre stage to make sense of fundamental questions of our time"--

Subject

• Inheritance and succession
• Kinship (Law)
• Successions et héritages
• Parenté (Droit)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : why inheritance / Daniel Monk and Suzanne Lenon -- Defining family trees and building family fortunes : a look into dispossession and enrichment through inheritance laws / Allison Tait -- 'My reputed children' : legacies of enslavement in Atlantic-Island wills / Anne Bottomley -- 'Charitable Inclinations' : women's bequests to Ireland's Magdalene Laundries / Máiréad Enright -- Surnames and inheritance : will-plotting and female economic power in the eighteenth-century novel / Jolene Zigarovich -- Murder, inheritance, and family provision in the golden age of English detective fiction / Rebecca Probert -- The story of the pink cat : an exploration of the ways care-experienced people navigate inheritance / Delyth Edwards and Rosie Canning -- Queer property / Russell Perkins -- Sentimental value : keeping inheritance in the family / Sarah Gilmartin and Anita Purewal -- How social norms and values influence the balance between wills variation claimants and testators / Allison A Cartier -- Testamentary freedom in debate : the prerequisite of the notary to pass down and to inherit / Corinne Delmas -- Children in need and the great intergenerational wealth transfer : squaring the impossible circle of testamentary freedom, family obligations, and the role of the state / Heather Conway and Sheena Grattan -- The power of blood : how succession law's reliance on DNA reinvigorates white supremacy and the politics of biological privilege / Danaya C Wright -- Women, property, and agency : contours of matrilineal inheritance among the Nayars in Kerala, India / Lekha NB and Antony Palackal -- Egalitarianism or just a need for revenues? debates on inheritance taxation in Scandinavia / Martin Dackling -- Émile Durkheim's proposal to abolish inheritance / Mélanie Plouviez.

ISBN

• 9781509964819
• 1509964819
• 9781509964857
• 1509964851
• 9781509964833 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781509964826 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023020583

OCLC

• on1391120444
• SCSB-14638747

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library