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000911117 1001_ $$aPitts, Yvonne.
000911117 24510 $$aFamily, law, and inheritance in America$$h[electronic resource] :$$ba social and legal history of nineteenth-century Kentucky /$$cYvonne Pitts.
000911117 260__ $$aCambridge [England] :$$bCambridge University Press,$$c2013.
000911117 300__ $$axiii, 203 p. :$$bill., maps.
000911117 440_0 $$aCambridge historical studies in American law and society
000911117 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 185-200) and index.
000911117 5058_ $$aMachine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. 'Parental justice': inheritance and obligation in families; 2. 'My black family': manumissions and freedom in inheritance disputes; 3. The arbiters of sanity: medical experts and jurists; 4. Physical impairments and degenerate minds: the body as evidence; 5. A special power: women's testamentary capacity; Epilogue.
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000911117 520__ $$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"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000911117 650_0 $$aInheritance and succession$$zKentucky$$y19th century.
000911117 650_0 $$aWills$$zKentucky$$y19th century.
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