Surprise Heirs I : Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights, and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750-1821 / Linda Lewin.
2022
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Author
Title
Surprise Heirs I : Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights, and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750-1821 / Linda Lewin.
Imprint
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2003
Description
1 online resource (248 p.)
Formatted Contents Note
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Preface
A Note on Legal Language and Brazilian Orthography and Names
Introduction
1 Inheritance As a Legal System
2 A Forgotten Population of Heirs Natural
3 Birth and Gender in Succession Law
4 Estate in Succession Law
5 The Pombaline Tradition
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Legal Primary Sources Cited
Other Sources Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
Contents
Preface
A Note on Legal Language and Brazilian Orthography and Names
Introduction
1 Inheritance As a Legal System
2 A Forgotten Population of Heirs Natural
3 Birth and Gender in Succession Law
4 Estate in Succession Law
5 The Pombaline Tradition
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Legal Primary Sources Cited
Other Sources Cited
Index
Summary
This book situates the changing patrimonial rights of illegitimate offspring in Brazil within a system of Luso-Brazilian heirship that operated during the final half century of Portuguese colonial rule. Besides offering the first detailed explanation of how the rules of inheritance applied to people born outside wedlock, the book's focus on illegitimacy and patrimony provides a new perspective for assessing how family formation figured broadly in late colonial Brazil's social evolution. Innovatively integrating legal history with recent research on the post-1750 history of the family in Brazil, the book reveals the significance of customary marriage and consensual cohabitation, clerical concubinage, concealed paternity, and foundling wheels for Latin American social organization. By reformulating the private law of family and inheritance, Portuguese legal nationalism transformed the juridical meaning of bastardy and anticipated the emergence of the "surprise heir," who figured so prominently in imperial Brazil's courtroom dramas and novels.
Language Note
In English.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)
Location
www
Access Note
restricted access (http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec) online access with authorization
Alternate Title
DeGruyter online
Language
English
ISBN
9780804764476
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