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Introduction. Currently, the surviving spouse is a legal heir in the majority of the states of Romano-Germanic legal family, but the conditions for granting and the scope and types of rights of the surviving spouse in intestate succession simultaneously ...
A. D. Fokina
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Reform of inheritance law in the Swiss confederation (reform phase I) [PDF]
In this paper, the author sheds light on the 2020 reform of the Swiss inheritance law, which was instituted by amending the succession law provisions of the Civil Code of the Swis Confederation (2020).
Stojanović Nataša
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The paper analyses a possible conflict of laws regulation regarding an inheritance contract under current Ukrainian Private International Law in the absence of special conflict of laws rules that are applicable to contractual dispositions upon death ...
Iryna Dikovska
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Hereditary position of a spouse in Serbian legislation [PDF]
Under the Serbian Inheritance Act (1995), the surviving spouse is an heir of the first and the second line of succession. The specific hereditary position of a surviving spouse in the first line of succession may be influenced by a fact that he/she is ...
Vučković Milica
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During the 2018–2022 process to amend the Succession Act, Muslims in Uganda requested a separate law to regulate their inheritance. However, this was rejected by the Parliamentary Committee.
Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi
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EVOLUTION OF SUCCESSION IN ROMAN LAW [PDF]
At the beginning, the Romans did not accept the idea that patrimonial rights could be passed on to each other, neither by acts inter vivos, nor by the cause of death.
Elena ANGHEL
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Ritual and Economic Strategies against Vacant Succession in Premodern Korea
The article discusses the emergence of Confucian-style lineages in the seventeenth century against the background of Korea’s transformation from a bilateral to a patrilineal society on the model of ritual prescriptions.
Martina Deuchler
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From contract to treaty: the legal transformation of the Spanish succession (1659-1713) [PDF]
The problem of the Spanish Succession kept the European diplomatic system in suspense from 1659 until 1713. Statesmen and diplomats tackled the question. Their practical vision of the law is a necessary complement to legal doctrine. Louis XIV and Emperor
Dhondt, Frederik
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Foreign element in legal regulation on succession: the experience of Regulation (EU) Nº 650/2012
The article reveals the problems of inheritance with a foreign element. In the modern world without borders, people change their residence, own real estate, keep bank accounts, and possess other property in different countries.
Alina GONCHAROVA +4 more
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Many venerable norms in inheritance law were designed to prevent forgery. Most prominently, since 1837, the Wills Act has required testators to express their last wishes in a signed and witnessed writing.
Horton, David, Weisbord, Reid Kress
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