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Launching a major new research project examining the principles of succession law in comparative perspective, this volume analyses the formalities imposed by the law on making a will across a wide range of European and international jurisdictions.

Wills. --- Formalities (Law) --- Form of juristic acts --- Form requirements (Law) --- Codicils --- Wills --- Law and legislation --- Law --- Inheritance and succession --- Legal instruments --- Registers of births, etc. --- Legacies --- Probate records --- Remainders (Estates)

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The volume Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 analyses death-related property transfers in several European regions (England, Poland, Italy, South Tirol, and Sweden). Laws and customary practice provided a legal framework for all post-mortem property devolution. However, personal preference and varied succession strategies meant that individuals could plan for death by various legal means. These individual legal acts could include matrimonial property arrangements (marriage contracts, morning gifts) and legal means of altering heirship by subtracting or adding heirs. Wills and testamentary practice are given special attention, while the volume also discusses the timing of the legal acts, suggesting that while some people made careful and timely arrangements, others only reacted to sudden events. Contributors are Christian Hagen, R.H. Helmholz, Mia Korpiola, Anu Lahtinen, Marko Lamberg, Margareth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith, Federica Masè, Anthony Musson, Tuula Rantala, Elsa Trolle Önnerfors, and Jakub Wysmułek.

Wills --- Law, Medieval --- Codicils --- Inheritance and succession --- Legal instruments --- Registers of births, etc. --- Legacies --- Probate records --- Remainders (Estates) --- History --- Law and legislation --- Wills - Europe - History - To 1500 - Congresses --- Wills - Europe - History - 16th century - Congresses --- Law, Medieval - Congresses

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History of the law --- anno 800-1199 --- anno 1200-1499 --- Utrecht --- Wills --- Gifts --- Church property --- History. --- History --- Sources. --- 347.65 <37> --- -Gifts --- -Wills --- -Codicils --- Inheritance and succession --- Legal instruments --- Registers of births, etc. --- Legacies --- Probate records --- Remainders (Estates) --- Donations --- Presents --- Generosity --- Manners and customs --- Free material --- Property, Church --- Church polity --- Property --- Romeins erfrecht --- -Sources --- Law and legislation --- 347.65 <37> Romeins erfrecht --- -Romeins erfrecht --- Sources --- -347.65 <37> Romeins erfrecht --- Codicils --- History&delete& --- Wills - Netherlands - Utrecht - History. --- Wills - Netherlands - Utrecht - History - Sources. --- Gifts - Netherlands - Utrecht - History. --- Church property - Netherlands - Utrecht - History.

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A study of the implications and practices of wills and will-making in Anglo-Saxon society, and of the varieties of inheritance strategies and commemorative arrangements adopted. A remarkable series of Anglo-Saxon wills have survived, spanning the period from the beginning of the ninth century to the years immediately following the Norman Conquest. Written in Old English, they reflect the significance of the vernacular, not only in royal administration during this period, but in the recording of a range of individual transactions. They show wealthy laymen and women, and clerics, from kings and bishops to those of thegnly status, disposing of land and chattels, and recognising ties of kinship, friendship, lordship and service through their bequests; and whilst land is of prime importance, the mention in some wills of such valuable items as tableware, furnishings, clothing, jewellery and weapons provides an insight into lifestyle at the time. Despite their importance, no study has hitherto been specifically devoted to Anglo-Saxon wills in their social and historical context, a gap which this book aims to fill. While the wills themselves can be vague and allusive, by establishing patterns of bequeathing, and by drawing on other resources, the author sheds light on the factors which influenced men and women in making appropriate provision for their property. Linda Tollerton gained her PhD from the University of York.

Wills --- Probate records --- Law, Anglo-Saxon --- Testaments --- Tribunaux --- Droit anglo-saxon --- History --- Histoire --- Dossiers --- Law, Anglo-Saxon. --- Codicils --- Inheritance and succession --- Legal instruments --- Registers of births, etc. --- Legacies --- Remainders (Estates) --- Anglo-Saxon law --- Court records --- Genealogy --- Law and legislation --- Anglo-Saxon England. --- Commemorative Arrangements. --- Inheritance Strategies. --- Will-Making.

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Yvonne Pitts explores inheritance practices by focusing on nineteenth-century testamentary capacity trials in Kentucky in which disinherited family members challenged relatives' wills. These disappointed heirs claimed that their departed relative lacked the capacity required to write a valid will. These inheritance disputes criss-crossed a variety of legal and cultural terrains, including ordinary people's understandings of what constituted insanity and justice, medical experts' attempts to infuse law with science, and the independence claims of women. Pitts uncovers the contradictions in the body of law that explicitly protected free will while simultaneously reinforcing the primacy of blood in mediating claims to inherited property. By anchoring the study in local communities and the texts of elite jurists, Pitts demonstrates that 'capacity' was a term laden with legal meaning and competing communal values about family, race relations and rationality. These concepts evolved as Kentucky transitioned from a conflicted border state with slaves to a developing free-labor, industrializing economy.

Inheritance and succession --- Wills --- Codicils --- Legal instruments --- Registers of births, etc. --- Legacies --- Probate records --- Remainders (Estates) --- Bequests --- Descent and distribution --- Descents --- Hereditary succession --- Intestacy --- Intestate succession --- Law of succession --- Succession, Intestate --- Real property --- Universal succession --- Trusts and trustees --- Law and legislation --- Arts and Humanities --- History