The laws of inheritance hold a very special position in the injunctions of Shariah and are in fact a part of the very exalted "HudoodUllah" and not only is it commanded to safeguard His Hudood rather it is said that disobedience of these rules will destroy all good and pious deeds....

The book provides the theoretical provisions on inheritance law in accordance with Part III of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and civil law science trends. It contains a lot of cases and judicial decisions, which are necessary for the proper understanding of Russian inheritance law and...

We examine how pre-industrial English caselaw development on land, inheritance, and families affected, and was affected by, economic and demographic outcomes. Our yearly measures of caselaw development are derived from existing topic-model estimates that reflect a comprehensive corpus of reports...

Equalizing inheritance rights is often suggested as an important step to guarantee gender equality in family transfers. South Korea removed the gender discriminatory provision in its inheritance law in 1991. This study looks at two channels of family transfer in South Korea—inheritance and...

It has long been known that most of the private law content of the Theodosian Code has not been preserved independently of the Lex Romana Visigothorum, or Breviary of Alaric. Certain constitutions, not contained in the Breviary but dating to the period covered by the Theodosian Code, have...

Using a counterfactual approach based on propensity score matching with Rosenbaum bounds in a cross section of 134 countries, we study the causal effect of colonisation on contemporary subjective happiness. Findings reveal that the settled countries, specifically former French colonies,...

All families may be created equal, so to speak. But differences between families in terms of economic wealth, resource networks, and access to cultural capital are both severe and stark. A large part of what shapes this scenery of economic possibility is the legal framework of wealth transfer....