Family, law, and inheritance in America (Record no. 100612)

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International Standard Book Number 9781107248786 (electronic bk.)
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Classification number KFK1346
Item number .P58 2013
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Classification number 346.76905/209034
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Pitts, Yvonne.
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Title Family, law, and inheritance in America
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title a social and legal history of nineteenth-century Kentucky /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Yvonne Pitts.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge [England] :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cambridge University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2013.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiii, 203 p. :
Other physical details ill., maps.
440 #0 - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE
Title Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-200) and index.
505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. 'Parental justice': inheritance and obligation in families; 2. 'My black family': manumissions and freedom in inheritance disputes; 3. The arbiters of sanity: medical experts and jurists; 4. Physical impairments and degenerate minds: the body as evidence; 5. A special power: women's testamentary capacity; Epilogue.
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Summary, etc. "Yvonne Pitts explores inheritance practices by focusing on nineteenth-century testamentary capacity trials in Kentucky in which disinherited family members challenged relatives' wills. These disappointed heirs claimed that their departed relative lacked the capacity required to write a valid will. These inheritance disputes criss-crossed a variety of legal and cultural terrains, including ordinary people's understandings of what constituted insanity and justice, medical experts' attempts to infuse law with science, and the independence claims of women. Pitts uncovers the contradictions in the body of law that explicitly protected free will while simultaneously reinforcing the primacy of blood in mediating claims to inherited property. By anchoring the study in local communities and the texts of elite jurists, Pitts demonstrates that 'capacity' was a term laden with legal meaning and competing communal values about family, race relations and rationality. These concepts evolved as Kentucky transitioned from a conflicted border state with slaves to a developing free-labor, industrializing economy"--
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Type of reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Inheritance and succession
Geographic subdivision Kentucky
Chronological subdivision 19th century.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Wills
Geographic subdivision Kentucky
Chronological subdivision 19th century.
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