Backwards Inheritance in Medieval Scandinavian Law

Miriam Tveit

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Pages:: 71–91

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004435582_005

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The article aims to identify the legal approach to ‘backwards inheritance’ in medieval Scandinavian law. When a person dies without descendants, the right to inherit from that person reverts to his or her ascendants, which could result in the property of one family falling to another family through marriage. In this article, the circumstances under which backwards inheritance was accepted or tried to be prevented in law is discussed, as well as the question of what the legislators’ strategies were. Scandinavian inheritance systems suggest that paternal inheritance rights dominated. However, the present study asserts that the legislation did not necessarily protect the interest of either the paternal or maternal kin group, but rather displayed concern for the surviving family.

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Series: Legal History Library, Volume: 38

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Publisher:: Brill | Nijhoff

Print Publication Date:: 29 Jun 2020

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