Marriage, property, and succession / edited by Lloyd Bonfield.
Contributors: Bonfield, Lloyd, 1949-.
Series: Comparative studies in continental and Anglo-American legal history = Vergleichende Untersuchungen zur kontinentaleuropäischen und anglo-amerikanischen Rechtsgeschichte -- Bd. 10; Comparative studies in continental and Anglo-American legal history -- Bd. 10..
Publisher: Duncker & Humblot
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Marriage law -- History.; Domestic relations -- History.; Inheritance and succession -- History.
Notes: English, French, Italian, and Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Le droit au service du patrimoine familial: les Pays-Bas Méridionaux / P. Godding; title: Family, property and succession in the Province of Holland during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / R. Feenstra; title: La struttura patrimoniale della famiglia italiana nel tardo medioevo / M. Bellomo; title: Successioni e difesa del patrimonio familiae nel Regno di Sicilia / A. Romano; title: Della famiglia e del suo patrimonio: riflessioni sull'uso del Fedecommesso in Lombardia tra cinque e seicento; title: Favor Maioratus, Usus Hispaniae: moralidad de Linaje entre Castilla y Europa / B. Clavero; title: Eléments d'une politique patrimoniale de l'aristocratie à travers l'example Bourguignon / M. Petitjean; title: Property settlements on marriage in England from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-eighteenth century / L. Bonfield; title: The English law of wills and the Ius Commune / R.H. Helmholz; title: The bequests of land in England in the High Middle Ages: testaments and the law / M.M. Sheehan; title: English and French marriage cases in the Later Middle Ages: might the difference be explained by differences in the property systems? / C. Donahue.