Nordic Inheritance Law Through the Ages: Spaces of Action and Legal Strategies

By Marianne Holdgaard

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.

Contributors are: Simone Abram, Gitte Meldgaard Abrahamsen, Per Andersen, Agnes S. Arn?rsd?ttir, John Asland, Knut D rum, Thomas Eeg, Ian Peter Grohse, Marianne Holdgaard, Astrid Mellem Johnsen, M?r J?nsson, Mia Korpiola, Gabriela Bjarne Larsson, Au?ur Magn?sd?ttir, Bodil Selmer, Helle I. M. Sigh, and Miriam Tveit.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900442735X
• ISBN13: 9789004427358
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"