Testamentary Freedom, 'ius commune' and Particular Law (c. 1400-1620): Volume 31 (Iuris Scripta Historica)

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INTRODUCTION
PART I
	TESTAMENTARY PRACTICE AS A LENS FOR STUDYING SOCIAL LIFE
		PRACTICING PARTIBLE INHERITANCE IN LATE MEDIEVAL FLANDERS AND BRABANT
			1. Introduction
			2. Inheritance, marriage and generational dynamics
			3. Making inheriting conditional
			4. Disinheritance?
			5. Conclusion
		TESTAMENTARY INHERITANCE IN THE LATE MEDIEVAL POLISH COUNTRYSIDE: SOURCES AND LEGAL PRACTICE*
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			1.
			2. Donations
			3. Social reception of the testaments
			4. Final comments
		BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE: THE LVIV MODEL OF INHERITANCE LAW IN THE LIGHT OF THE TOWNSPEOPLE’S WILLS FROM 1541-1599
			2. Wills whose provisions go beyond the accepted model of inheritance
			3. Distinction
			4. Ingratitude
			5. Venality
			6. Conclusions
PART II
	AND LOCAL LEGAL DISCOURSE AND PRACTICE
		BY THE LEUVEN LAW PROFESSORS ROBERTUS DE LACU († 1483) AND NICOLAUS EVERARDI (c. 1462-1532) ON THE LAW OF LAST WILLS
			1. Introduction
			2. Testamentary freedom
			3. Validity requirements
			4. Conclusion
		‘AS GOOD AS POSSIBLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS’ TESTAMENTARY WITNESSES IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY FRISIA
			1. The Frisians and their freedom
			2. The Frisian sources
			3. Last wills in classical Frisian law
			4. Last wills in late medieval Frisia and the
			5. The number of witnesses in fifteenth-century law texts
			6. The number of witnesses to Hotnya’s last will
			7. Conclusion
		ON
		LEGAL PRACTICE AND THE SCHOLARLY DISCOURSE OF
			1. Introduction
			on the
			2.
			3. Legal practice and theoretical discourse of
			4. Conclusion: the dynamics of the relation between legal practice and scholarly discourse
PART III
	PARTICULAR LAW AND TESTAMENTARY FREEDOM
		LAST WILLS, POSTMORTAL DISPOSITIONS AND TESTAMENTS IN EARLY MODERN SAXONIAN LAW: WITH
		FROM
		TO THE
			1. Introduction
			2. Questions and sources
			3. Jurymen’s votes concerning last wills
			4. Conclusions
		TESTAMENTARY FREEDOM IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BOHEMIAN LAW
			1. Introduction
			2. Testamentary capacity
			3. Property excluded from testamentary capacity
			4. Content limits of the will
			5. Necessity of consent of a higher authority
			6. Conclusion
		LAST WILLS OF KRAKÓW UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS AND THE SCOPE OF TESTAMENTARY FREEDOM IN POLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENT
			1. Professors’ wills: in search of the proper law
			2. Scope of testamentary freedom
			3. Freedom of wills in practice
			4. Conclusions
		INDEX
		ABOUT THE AUTHORS