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200 1. $a Family, law, and inheritance in America $b Texte imprimé $e a social and legal history of nineteenth-century Kentucky $f Yvonne Pitts
214 .0 $a Cambridge $c Cambridge University Press $d 2013
215 .. $a xiii, 203 pages $c illustrations $d 24 cm
225 |. $a Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
300 .. $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index
330 .. $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"
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