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Wives or Widows and their Representatives.

The main purpose of this article is to scrutinize the opportunities married women had to administer their inheritance and reversions compared to widows' opportunities to administer their inheritance, dower and share from the former marriage. It has been claimed that medieval women had to wait until...

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Published in:Scandinavian Journal of History Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 49 - 69
Main Author: Larsson, Gabriela Bjarne
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2012
Subjects:
Legal status of married women
Legal status of widows
Executors & administrators
Inheritance & succession
Financial management
Nobility (Social class)
Land tenure
Swedish history
Legal status of landowners
Real estate management
History
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