Law, Land, and Family - 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 Law, Land, and Family write by Eileen Spring. This book was released on 2000-11-09. Law, Land, and Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eileen Spring presents a fresh interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy. In a work that recasts both the history of real property law and the history of the family, she finds that one of the principal and determinative features of upper-class real property inheritance was the exclusion of females. This exclusion was accomplished by a series of legal devices designed to nullify the common-law rules of inheritance under which--had they prevailed--40 percent of English land would have been inherited or held by women. Current ideas of family development portray female inheritance as increasing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but Spring argues that this is a misperception, resulting from an incomplete consideration of the common-law rules. Female rights actually declined, reaching their nadir in the eighteenth century. Spring shows that there was a centuries-long conflict between male and female heirs, a conflict that has not been adequately recognized until now.
Law, Land, & Family
Law, Land, & Family - 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 Law, Land, & Family write by Eileen Spring. This book was released on 1996. Law, Land, & Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Law of the Land
The Law of the Land - 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 Law of the Land write by Akhil Reed Amar. This book was released on 2015-04-14. The Law of the Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Kennebunkport to Kauai, from the Rio Grande to the Northern Rockies, ours is a vast republic. While we may be united under one Constitution, separate and distinct states remain, each with its own constitution and culture. Geographic idiosyncrasies add more than just local character. Regional understandings of law and justice have shaped and reshaped our nation throughout history. America’s Constitution, our founding and unifying document, looks slightly different in California than it does in Kansas. In The Law of the Land, renowned legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar illustrates how geography, federalism, and regionalism have influenced some of the biggest questions in American constitutional law. Writing about Illinois, “the land of Lincoln,” Amar shows how our sixteenth president’s ideas about secession were influenced by his Midwestern upbringing and outlook. All of today’s Supreme Court justices, Amar notes, learned their law in the Northeast, and New Yorkers of various sorts dominate the judiciary as never before. The curious Bush v. Gore decision, Amar insists, must be assessed with careful attention to Florida law and the Florida Constitution. The second amendment appears in a particularly interesting light, he argues, when viewed from the perspective of Rocky Mountain cowboys and cowgirls. Propelled by Amar’s distinctively smart, lucid, and engaging prose, these essays allow general readers to see the historical roots of, and contemporary solutions to, many important constitutional questions. The Law of the Land illuminates our nation’s history and politics, and shows how America’s various local parts fit together to form a grand federal framework.
Property and the Family in Biblical Law
Property and the Family in Biblical 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 Property and the Family in Biblical Law write by Raymond Westbrook. This book was released on 1991-01-01. Property and the Family in Biblical Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. International Meeting in Sheffield, England, in August 1988."--Preface. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-170) and indexes.
Law, Land, & Family
Law, Land, & Family - 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 Law, Land, & Family write by ... Spring. This book was released on 1993. Law, Land, & Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
