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

ISBN: 9781107240643 出版年：2013 页码：220 Yvonne Pitts Cambridge University Press

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.