symposium on succession to property by operation of law
Subtitle: based upon legal writings, 1932-35
By: Thomas E. Atkinson, Ernest Beaglehole [and others]; with an introduction by John H. Wigmore.
Contributors: Kennedy, W. P. M. 1879-1963.
Publisher: Iowa Law Review
Published: 1935
Place of publication: [Iowa City]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Inheritance (legal)
Other titles: Iowa Law Review
Notes: Iowa law Review, January, 1935, pp. 181-475.
Table of contents: value: Introduction, by J.H. Wigmore.  Succession among collaterals, by T.E. Atkinson.  Change in the American family and the "Laughing heir", by D.F. Cavers.  Inheritance by and from bastards, by C.G. Vernier and E.P. Churchill.  Descent and succession under the community property system, by C.G. Vernier and J.B. Hurlbut.  Introduction to the Intestacy Act and the Dower Rights Act, by W.L. Eagleton.  The explanatory process in the field of inheritance, by Huntington Cairns.  Patrilineal and matrilineal succession, by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown.  Ownership and inheritance in an Indian tribe, by Ernest Beaglehole.  Testators' dependants relief legislation, by W.P.M. Kenedy.  Freedom of testation in English law, by George W. Keeton and L.C.B. Gower.  Limits of inheritance in the laws of Europe, by E.M. Meijers.  The peasant inheritance law in Germany - on the basis of the Reich's Hereditary Peasant Farm Law of 1933, by E.H. Kaden. The law of succession in Soviet jurisprudence since 1922, by A.B. Holman. legitimate inheritance under the Brazilian civil law, by Clovi Bevilaqua. Inheritance in China, by Tao Shing Chang.  Apportionment of the claims of the deceased in Successions Ab Intestat in French law, by J.P. Niboyet. European methods for the liquidation of the debts of deceased persons, by Max Rheinstein.