History of the Kuykendall Family
History of the Kuykendall Family

Author: George Benson Kuykendall

Publisher: Рипол Классик

Published: 1919

Total Pages: 689

ISBN-13: 5872287712

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With Genealogy as Found in Early Dutch Church Records, State and Government Documents, Together with Sketches of Colonial Times, Old Log Cabin Days, Indian Wars, Pioneer Hardships, Social Customs, Dress and Mode of Living of the Early Forefathers

Family, Law, and Inheritance in America
Family, Law, and Inheritance in America

Author: Yvonne Pitts

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-20

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1107035503

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Yvonne Pitts explores nineteenth-century inheritance practices by focusing on testamentary capacity trials in Kentucky in which disinherited family members challenged relatives' wills, claiming the testator lacked the capacity required to write a valid will. By anchoring the study in the history of local communities and the texts of elite jurists, Pitts demonstrates that "capacity" was a term laden with legal meaning and competing communal values.