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Wills, Inheritance and the Moral Order in the 17Th-Century Agenais

Gregory Hanlon

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Eispeth Carruthers

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Local custom regulating successoral practice is inadequate when confronted with the testaments themselves. With a sample of 313 wills from the confessionally mixed community of Layrac-en-Brulhois, France, (1606-1707) the authors distinguish the different patterns of succession and link them to the social attitudes of which they are the instrument, underlining the basic coherence and unity of local practice across time and across confes sional and social boundaries. The flexibility allowed individual testators was used to protect the elderly foremost, to enhance individuals' welfare over estate consolidation, and to mete out justice in a world of dearth and insecurity.

Journal of Family History, Vol. 15, No. 1, 149-161 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/036319909001500109
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