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The New Ice Age: Addressing the Deficiencies in Arkansas\u27s Posthumously Conceived Children Statute [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The ability to conceive a child using the preserved genetic material, or gametes, of a deceased person presents a number of legal issues for inheritance, estate planning, Social Security, and parental rights.
Grecu, Patrick
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Who were the urban gentry? Social elites in an English provincial town, c.1680-1760 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper explores the identity and social worlds of the ‘urban gentry’ of Chester as they developed from the late seventeenth to the mid eighteenth century.
Stobart, Jon
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Basic Arkansas Intestate Succession, Rights of Surviving Spouses, and Related Curative Techniques for Lawyers and Landmen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Mineral interests may lay dormant for decades before becoming productive. In the interim, however, the owners of these interests do not lay dormant. They live long lives, marry, have children, and eventually, they die.
Robinette, J. Mark, Jr.
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Worth, age, and social status in early modern England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article introduces a new source for assessing the distribution of wealth in early modern England derived from witness depositions taken by the church courts.
Shepard, A., Spicksley, J.
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Property Law: The Estates of Missing Persons [PDF]

open access: yes, 1966
This comment compiles and critically analyzes the various statutory provisions enacted for the preservation and distribution of the property of missing and unaccounted-for persons.
Johansson, Pernilla
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: How the New Hampshire Probate Court Has Strengthened the Power of the Attorney General in Charitable Trust Suits [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
As Americans increasingly use estate planning tools to provide for their favorite charities, the charitable trust is an important instrument that fits uniquely into general trust law.
Spilios, Angelina M.
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Slaves out of context: domestic slavery and the Anglo-Indian family, c. 1780–1830 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper explores the place of domestic slaves in British families resident in India, c. 1780–1830, and the ways in which the presence of slaves within these Anglo-Indian households challenged British understandings of slavery as a practice.
Finn, Margot C.
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Rhode Island Report on the Judiciary 1974 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1974
The report is divided into two sections. Part I reviews the structure and organization of the state courts. To some of you this review may seem superfluous.

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Rhode Island Report on the Judiciary 1973 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1973
This is the second annual report produced by the Office of the State Court Administrator. The first report, published in 1973, reviewed the progress made in the administration of the Rhode Island Court System in the period 1969-1972. This report contains

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