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Immovable Property: The issues Across sectors, across jurisdictions Monday 21 October 2013 Til death do us part: the exalted position of the widow in medieval Normandy Prof. Meryl Thomas Immovable Property: The issues Across sectors,

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Immovable Property: The issues Across sectors, across jurisdictions Monday 21 October 2013

‘Til death do us part: the ‘exalted’ position

f the widow

in medieval Normandy

Prof. Meryl Thomas

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Introduction

Under another’s power
Hoüard
Blackstone
Reasons
Biblical
Biological
Auctoritatis

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Inability to inherit from parents
Dowry

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Dower

Property?
Consummation
Alienation
Behaviour of the wife/widow

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Property

Conventional dower and customary dower
Acquêts and conquêts?
Usufruct

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Légitime and movables Community of property

What if community of property?
Redacted Coutumier 1583, Art 389
Why is there no community in Normandy?

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Conclusion

Remarry
Live with male relative
Convent
Monastery