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Gift-giving and inheritance strategies in late Roman law and legal practice

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07/06/2017
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Humfress, Caroline
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DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World
K Law (General)
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In Roman law, an inheritance could be passed on according to the rules of intestate or testate succession. The Roman law of succession presents people with an enormous display of legal ingenuity. This chapter analyses some of the legal instruments and rules by which late Roman testators and donors were able to pursue making over bequests and inheritances to the institutional Christian church. It presents an overview of Roman family law and inheritance structures, paying particular attention to post-classical legal developments. The chapter explores donation and inheritance law in the specific context of the institutional Christian church from the age of Constantine onwards. It expands on this analysis via a focus on specific examples of strategic behaviour relating to Christian gift-giving and inheritance in the later fourth, fifth and sixth centuries AD. It shows that Roman legislators themselves engaged in strategic behaviour, attempting to use the Roman law of donation and inheritance as a means of socio-religious control.
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Humfress , C 2017 , Gift-giving and inheritance strategies in late Roman law and legal practice . in O-A Rønning , H Møller Sigh & H Vogt (eds) , Donations, inheritance and property in the Nordic and Western world from late Antiquity until today . vol. Abingdon , Routledge studies in cultural history , Routledge . < https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315182704/chapters/10.4324/9781315182704-2 >
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Donations, inheritance and property in the Nordic and Western world from late Antiquity until today
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Copyright © 2017, Publisher / the Author. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315182704/chapters/10.4324/9781315182704-2
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  • Centre for Global Constitutionalism Research
  • History Research
  • Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research
  • St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
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https://www.routledge.com/9781138195837
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315182704/chapters/10.4324/9781315182704-2
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16641

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