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Inheritance and succession. --- Bequests --- Descent and distribution --- Descents --- Hereditary succession --- Inheritance and succession --- Intestacy --- Intestate succession --- Law of succession --- Succession, Intestate --- Real property --- Universal succession --- Trusts and trustees --- Law and legislation

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This study, based on Florentine repudiations of inheritance, reveals that inheritance was not simply an automatic process where the recipients were passive, if grateful. In influential European societies of the past, it was in fact a process that continued long after the deceased's death. Heirs also had options: at the least, to reject a burdensome patrimony, but also to manoeuvre property to others and to avoid (at times deceptively, if not fraudulently) the claims of others to portions of the estate. Repudiation was a vestige of Roman law that once again became a viable legal institution with the revival of Roman law in the Middle Ages. Florentines incorporated repudiation into their strategies of adjustment after death, showing that they were not merely passive recipients of what came their way. Further, these strategies fostered family goals, including continuity across the generations.

Inheritance and succession --- Renunciation of inheritance --- Renunciation (Law) --- Bequests --- Descent and distribution --- Descents --- Hereditary succession --- Intestacy --- Intestate succession --- Law of succession --- Succession, Intestate --- Real property --- Universal succession --- Trusts and trustees --- History. --- Law and legislation --- Florence (Italy) --- History --- Arts and Humanities

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Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages – Spaces of Action and Legal Strategies explores the significance of inheritance law from medieval times to the present through topical and in-depth studies that bring life to historical and contemporary inheritance practices. The contributions cover three themes: status of persons and options in the process of property devolution; wills, gift-giving and legal disputes as means to shape the working of the law; processes of inheritance legislation. The authors focus on instances where legal strategies of various actors particularly reveal inheritance law as a contested and yet constrained space of action, and somewhat surprisingly show similar solutions to family law issues dealt with in other Western European countries

Inheritance and succession. --- Bequests --- Descent and distribution --- Descents --- Hereditary succession --- Inheritance and succession --- Intestacy --- Intestate succession --- Law of succession --- Succession, Intestate --- Real property --- Universal succession --- Trusts and trustees --- Law and legislation

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This book examines those cases where a person is promised a future inheritance and, having acted on it, later discovers that the promise is unfulfilled. It structures its analysis around the stories of disappointed promisees and their unfulfilled expectations of a future inheritance, and how they might seek redress. It maps and compares the various, and often very diverse range of, legal responses that a promisee can utilize across different legal areas of the law (ranging from contract law to property law, employment law, enrichment law, and succession law) and in both common and civil law traditions. It asks how these responses protect the interests of promisees and whether they are sensitive to the context in which such promises are expressed. In doing so, the focus rests on the level of protection the various forms of redress grant, their scope, and the challenges promisees face when bringing a claim, but also on the values and interests that are at stake when granting relief. The book argues that due to the social and legal context within which promises of a future inheritance are normally made, promisees are often in a vulnerable position that can easily by exploited. It further argues that the law is usually more acutely attuned to the risks that the promisor incurs and that greater attention should be paid to the vulnerability of promisees.

promises, inheritance --- reliance, enrichment --- Inheritance and succession. --- Bequests --- Descent and distribution --- Descents --- Hereditary succession --- Inheritance and succession --- Intestacy --- Intestate succession --- Law of succession --- Succession, Intestate --- Real property --- Universal succession --- Trusts and trustees --- Law and legislation

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Status of persons --- Family law. Inheritance law --- Netherlands --- Inheritance and succession --- Domestic relations --- -Inheritance and succession --- -Persons (Law) --- -Bequests --- Descent and distribution --- Descents --- Hereditary succession --- Intestacy --- Intestate succession --- Law of succession --- Succession, Intestate --- Real property --- Universal succession --- Trusts and trustees --- Families --- Family law --- Marriage --- Persons (Law) --- Sex and law --- Law and legislation --- -Domestic relations --- Inheritance and succession - Netherlands --- Bequests