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020			_z9781107035508 (hardback)
020			_a9781107248786 (electronic bk.)
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050		4	_aKFK1346 _b.P58 2013
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100	1		_aPitts, Yvonne.
245	1	0	_aFamily, law, and inheritance in America _h[electronic resource] : _ba social and legal history of nineteenth-century Kentucky / _cYvonne Pitts.
260			_aCambridge [England] : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_axiii, 203 p. : _bill., maps.
440		0	_aCambridge historical studies in American law and society
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 185-200) and index.
505	8		_aMachine 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.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aInheritance and succession _zKentucky _y19th century.
650		0	_aWills _zKentucky _y19th century.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
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