Assorted References

• assets liquidation in bankruptcy law
  • In bankruptcy: Assets subject to liquidation proceedings
• distribution of wealth and income
  • In distribution of wealth and income
• jurisdiction of intestate succession
  • In intestate succession
• transfer of political power
  • In political system: Governments classified by mode of succession

regulation in

• Charles IV’s Golden Bull
  • In Germany: Charles IV and the Golden Bull
• Chinese law
  • In property law: Succession at death
• civil law
  • In civil law: The French system
  • In civil law: Succession
• common law
  • In common law: Property and succession
• early American society
  • In United States: The Carolinas and Georgia
  • In United States: The social revolution
  • In United States: The social revolution
• family law
  • In family law: Adoption
  • In family: Family law
• Germanic tribal law
  • In Germanic law: Tribal Germanic institutions
• Inca royal property law
  • In pre-Columbian civilizations: Administration of the empire
• Middle Ages and monarchy
  • In history of Europe: The office and person of the king
• property law
  • In property
  • In property law: Protection of the family against intentional disinheritance
• Roman law
  • In Roman law: The law of succession
• Russian law
  • In property law: Inheritance law

rights in

• adoption
  • In adoption
• feudal society
  • In vassal
• illegitimacy
  • In illegitimacy

The historical background of modern laws of inheritance

Max Kaser, Roman Private Law, 3rd ed. (1980; originally published in German, 10th ed., 1977); W.W. Buckland, A Text-Book of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian, 3rd ed. rev. by Peter Stein (1963, reprinted 1975); Rudolf Hübner, History of Germanic Private Law (1918, reprinted 1968; originally published in German, 2nd ed., 1913); Frederick Pollock and Frederick W. Maitland, History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I, vol. 2, 2nd ed. (1959, reissued 1968); and Sir William Holdsworth, History of English Law, 7th rev. ed. by A.L. Goodhart and H.G. Hanbury, 17 vol. (1956–72).

Discussions and critiques of inheritance

John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, vol. 1 (1848), available also in many later editions; Lujo Brentano, Alte und neue Feudalität: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Erbrechtspolitik, 2nd ed. (1924); Josiah Wedgwood, The Economics of Inheritance (1929, reprinted 1971); Sir Josiah Stamp, Some Economic Factors in Modern Life (1929); Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1942; originally published in German, 1884); and Karl Renner, The Institutions of Private Law and Their Social Functions (1949, reissued 1976; originally published in German, 1929). Marvin B. Sussman, Judith N. Cates, and David T. Smith, The Family and Inheritance (1970), is a case study culminating in conclusions about testamentary patterns, practices, and effects of inheritance in American society.

The current law of inheritance

Monographic treatises on contemporary inheritance laws are collected in Murad Ferid and Karl Firsching (eds.), Internationales Erbrecht (1955– ), a multivolume publication, loose-leaf for updates and additions, covering, among others, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Great Britain, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, South Africa, Turkey, Hungary, the United States, and Vatican City. Concise digests of the succession laws of all jurisdictions of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and many other countries are published annually in Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. For the United States, see William Herbert Page, Page on the Law of Wills, rev. ed. by William J. Bowe and Douglas H. Parker, 8 vol. in 9 (1960–65), kept up-to-date by annual supplements; and Max Rheinstein and Mary Ann Glendon, Law of Decedents’ Estates (1971), an introduction. For England, see H.S. Theobald, Theobald on Wills, 13th ed. by Stephen Cretney and Gerald Dworkin (1971); D.H. Parry, Parry and Clark on the Law of Succession, 8th ed. by J.B. Clark (1983); W.J. Williams, Williams’ Law Relating to Wills, 5th ed. by C.H. Sherrin, R.F.D. Barlow, and R.A. Wallington, 2 vol. (1980); and Williams, Mortimer, and Sunnucks on Executors, Administrators, and Probate: Being the 16th Ed. of Williams on Executors and the 4th Ed. of Mortimer on Probate, by J.H.G. Sunnucks, J.G. Ross Martyn, and K.M. Garnett (1982). For Scotland, see David M. Walker, Principles of Scottish Private Law, 3rd ed., 4 vol. (1982–83).