Comparative Succession Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparative Succession Law write by Kenneth G C Reid. This book was released on 2020-10-09. Comparative Succession Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This third volume in a series on Comparative Succession Law concerns the entitlement of family members to override the provisions of a deceased person's will to obtain money or assets (or more money or assets) from the person's estate. Some countries, notably those in the civil law tradition (such as France or Germany), confer a pre-ordained share of the deceased's estate or of its value on certain members of the deceased's family, and especially on the deceased's children and spouse. Other countries, notably those in the common law tradition (such as England, Canada, or Australia), leave the matter to the discretion of the court, the amount awarded depending primarily on financial need. Whichever form it takes, mandatory family provision is both a protection against disinheritance and also, therefore, a restriction on testamentary freedom. The volume focuses on Europe and on countries influenced by the European experience. In addition to detailed treatment of the law in Austria, England and Wales, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Scotland, and Spain, the book also has chapters on Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, the United States, Canada, the countries of Latin America, and the People's Republic of China. Some other countries are covered more briefly, and there is a separate chapter on Islamic law. The book opens with accounts of Roman law and of the law in medieval and early-modern Europe, and it concludes with a comparative assessment of the law as it is today in the countries and legal traditions surveyed in this volume.
The Power of the Fathers
The Power of the Fathers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Power of the Fathers write by Margareth Lanzinger. This book was released on 2016-02-05. The Power of the Fathers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book examines the topic of paternal authority as it developed over a long period of time. The focus is on the power of fathers as manifested within a complex fabric of legal, social, economic, political and moral aspects. In early modern times, a father’s power was based upon his personal and legal position as the one responsible for the family and the household in the sense of an economic unit, as well as on his moral authority over all those who belonged to said household. At the same time, the father was subject to public control, and his legal status was characterized not only by power, but also by obligations. This status was modelled after the figure of the pater familias as conceived of in Roman law—a concept that remained relevant up into the nineteenth century, though not without changes. Ultimately, the figure of the pater familias came to overlap with the modern-era perception of fathers’ disempowerment. The chapters of this book analyse the public responsibility of fathers in the case of an adulterous daughter, legal acts of emancipation by which a son could gain independence from his father, and various opinions with regard to "indulgent" fathering, paternal authority over married sons, and provisions set out in wills. This book was originally published as a special issue of The History of the Family.
The Code Napoléon Rewritten
The Code Napoléon Rewritten - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Code Napoléon Rewritten write by John Cartwright. This book was released on 2017-10-05. The Code Napoléon Rewritten available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The provisions of the French Civil Code governing the law of obligations have remained largely unchanged since 1804 and have served as the model for civil codes across the world. In 2016, the French Government effected major reforms of the provisions on the law of contract, the general regime of obligations and proof of obligations. This work explores in detail the most interesting new provisions on French contract law in a series of essays by French lawyers and comparative lawyers working on French law and other civil law systems. It will make these fundamental reforms accessible to an English-speaking audience.
Catalogue of the Library of George Perkins Marsh
Catalogue of the Library of George Perkins Marsh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Catalogue of the Library of George Perkins Marsh write by University of Vermont. This book was released on 1892. Catalogue of the Library of George Perkins Marsh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Regional Private Laws and Codification in Europe
Regional Private Laws and Codification in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regional Private Laws and Codification in Europe write by Hector L. MacQueen. This book was released on 2003-10-16. Regional Private Laws and Codification in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Regions within European Union member states (such as Scotland in the UK and Catalonia in Spain) have their own legal systems: how will the process of 'Europeanization' affect them? This volume examines the phenomenon of 'regional' private law in the European Union, considering jurisdictions and laws below those of the member states and drawing comparisons with other such jurisdictions elsewhere in the world, such as Louisiana and Quebec. The whole is considered in relation to the development of European private law, and the use of codification in that process. This volume will be of interest to academic lawyers worldwide, advanced law students and European policy-makers.
