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Immovable Property: The issues Across sectors, across jurisdictions Monday 21 October 2013 Til death do us part: the exalted position of the widow in medieval Normandy Prof. Meryl Thomas Immovable Property: The issues Across sectors,


  1. Immovable Property: The issues Across sectors, across jurisdictions Monday 21 October 2013 ‘Til death do us part: the ‘exalted’ position of the widow in medieval Normandy Prof. Meryl Thomas

  2. Immovable Property: The issues Across sectors, across jurisdictions Monday 21 October 2013 Introduction • Under another’s power o Hoüard o Blackstone • Reasons o Biblical o Biological o Auctoritatis

  3. Immovable Property: The issues Across sectors, across jurisdictions Monday 21 October 2013 • Inability to inherit from parents • Dowry

  4. Immovable Property: The issues Across sectors, across jurisdictions Monday 21 October 2013 Dower • Property? • Consummation • Alienation • Behaviour of the wife/widow

  5. Immovable Property: The issues Across sectors, across jurisdictions Monday 21 October 2013 Property • Conventional dower and customary dower • Acquêts and conquêts? • Usufruct

  6. Immovable Property: The issues Across sectors, across jurisdictions Monday 21 October 2013 Légitime and movables Community of property • What if community of property? • Redacted Coutumier 1583, Art 389 • Why is there no community in Normandy?

  7. Immovable Property: The issues Across sectors, across jurisdictions Monday 21 October 2013 Conclusion • Remarry • Live with male relative • Convent • Monastery

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