Family, Law, and Inheritance in America: A Social and Legal History of Nineteenth-Century Kentucky

by Yvonne Pitts

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 crisscrossed a variety of legal and cultural terrains, including ordinary people's understandings of what constituted insanity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107035503
• ISBN13: 9781107035508
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"