Succession Law, Practice and Society in Europe across the Centuries

1. The Right of Troncalidad in Castilian Inheritance Law in the High Middle Ages
Manuel A. Bermejo Castrillo

2. Family Succession Wars: Succession Norms and Practices in Medieval and Modern Catalonia
Tünde Mikes, Tomàs Montagut

3.
Actiones Hereditariae. Claims in Favour of, and Against Heirs in Medieval Ius Commune
J. H. Dondorp

4. The Ius Decretalium and the Development of the Law of Succession in Medieval Europe. Some Examples from Denmark and Sweden (XII–XIII C.)
Orazio Condorelli

5. Testamentary Freedom in Law and Practice in Medieval Sweden: Conflicts and Coexistence
Mia Korpiola

6. The Evolution of the Scots Law and Practice of Succession: 1300–2000
Ilya Kotlyar

7. Women’s Succession from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era
Loredana Garlati

8. A Coffer for the Will
Alessandra Bassani

9.
Materia Est Valde Periculosa: Interpreting Testaments in Quattrocento Florence
Thomas Kuehn

10. Disinheritance of Children for Lack of Parental Consent to the Marriage in the Ius Commune and Early Modern Scholastic Traditions
Giovanni Chiodi, Wim Decock

11.
Quidquid ex Testamento Petunt Scriptum Heredem Convenire Debent. Initial Comments on the Inheritance Transactio from the Ius Commune to the Early Modern Period
Sara Parini Vincenti

12. Between Practice and Theory: Succession Law According to Jacques Cujas (1522–1590)
Xavier Prévost

13. A Difficult Legacy. Initial Comments on the Inheritance Rights of Filii Clericorum in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Stefania T. Salvi

14.
Consilia and Dynastic Successions in Modern Europe
Chiara Valsecchi

15. Gift Mortis Causa in the Ius Commune: Contract and Last Will
Andrea Massironi

16. Towards a Ius Commune Europaeum on Successions and Testament? The 17th Century Decisiones Rotae Romanae

Maria Gigliola Renzo Villata

17. Intestate Succession Between Doctrine and Roman Rota Case Law in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Angela Santangelo Cordani

18. Royal Successions. A Special Law for the Inheritance of Power?
Mathias Schmoeckel

19. The Difficult Road to Harmonization of French Succession Law
Olivier Descamps

20. Notes on the Bonae Fidei Possessio Pro Herede in the Civil Law Systems (19th–20th Centuries)
Paolo Rondini

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