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Surprise Heirs I: Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights, and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750-1821 Linda Lewin
Surprise Heirs I: Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights, and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750-1821
Linda Lewin
This work situates the patrimonial rights of illegitimate offspring in Brazil within a system of Luso-Brazilian heirship that operated in the final half century of Portugese colonial rule. The book offers an explanation of how the rules of inheritance applied to people born outside of wedlock.
240 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 15, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804738811 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 248 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 22 mm · 489 g |