Marriage Settlements, 1601–1740

The Adoption of the Strict Settlement

Lloyd Bonfield (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

156 Seiten

2008
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-09126-8 (ISBN)

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The history of the family has become an area of great interest, yet the property arrangements entered into upon marriage, a crucial aspect of the process of familial wealth transmission and distribution in the landed classes in early modern England, have never been systematically studied. In the light of evidence provided by hitherto unused family muniments, Dr Bonfield analyses the legal, social and economic aspects of these settlements, and discusses the development and impact of the strict settlement.

1. The medieval inheritance and the Statute of Uses; 2. Law in transition: the conflict over restraints upon alienation; 3. Patterns of marriage settlement 1601–1659: the development of the 'life estate-entail' mode; 4. The emergence of the strict settlement; 5. The adoption of the strict settlement 1660–1740: Kent and Northamptonshire; 6. Marriage settlements in perspective: the social and economic aspects.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.11.2008
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	210 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-521-09126-8 / 0521091268
ISBN-13	978-0-521-09126-8 / 9780521091268
Zustand	Neuware