Download or read book Kinship in Europe written by David Warren Sabean and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of Philippe Ariès' book, 'Centuries of Childhood', there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. The essays in this text explore two major transitions in kinship patterns - at the end of the Middle Ages and at the end of the 18th century.

Download or read book Gifts written by Richard Hyland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law is the first broad-based study of the law governing the giving and revocation of gifts ever attempted. Gift-giving is everywhere governed by social and customary norms before it encounters the law and the giving of gifts takes place largely outside of the marketplace. As a result of these two characteristics, the law of gifts provides an optimal lens through which to examine how different legal systems engage with social practice. The law of gifts is well-developed both in the civil and the common laws. Richard Hyland's study provides an excellent view of the ways in which different civil and common law jurisdictions confront common issues. The legal systems discussed include principally, in the common law, those of Great Britain, the United States, and India, and, in the civil law, the private law systems of Belgium and France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Professor Hyland also serves a critique of the dominant method in the field, which is a form of functionalism based on what is called the praesumptio similitudinis, namely the axiom that, once legal doctrine is stripped away, developed legal systems tend to reach similar practical results. His study demonstrates, to the contrary, that legal systems actually differ, not only in their approach and conceptual structure, but just as much in the results.

Download or read book Paradise News written by David Lodge and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love.

Download or read book FAO Legislative Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rome III Regulation written by Sabine Corneloup and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive Commentary provides an in-depth, article-by-article analysis of the Rome III Regulation, the uniform rules adopted by the EU to determine the law applicable to cross-border divorce and legal separation. Written by a team of renowned experts, private international law scholars and practitioners alike will find this Commentary an incisive and useful point of reference.

Download or read book Thicker Than Water written by Leonore Davidoff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering new study of nineteenth-century kinship and family relations, focusing on the British middle class, and highlighting both the similarities and the differences in relations between brothers and sisters in the past and in the present.

Download or read book La r forme des r gimes matrimoniaux et de diverses dispositions successorales written by Philippe De Page and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La loi du 22 juillet 2018 réforme principalement – mais partiellement – les régimes matrimoniaux. Les modifications portées par cette loi sont néanmoins substantielles car, d'une part, elles codifient un certain nombre d'acquis doctrinaux et jurisprudentiels, et, d'autre part, elles créent de nouvelles normes et qualifications en la matière. Ainsi, dans le régime légal, les droits de nature personnels et leur valeur économique, les indemnisations personnelles et patrimoniales, les assurances vie individuelles, le partage des biens, les attributions préférentielles et les apports de biens propres ont été notamment repensés et codifiés. En séparation de biens pure et simple, la réforme la plus notable porte sur l'extension à ce régime de la théorie des avantages matrimoniaux, pour tenter de mettre, au moins partiellement, fin aux controverses existant à ce propos. Le séparatisme rigoureux de ce régime peut désormais être atténué par une correction en équité qui, si elle est généreuse dans son principe, ne manquera sans doute pas de faire débat chez les praticiens. Le régime de la participation aux acquêts a été introduit dansnnotre arsenal législatif, et sa codification a été réalisée dans la perspective de lui assurer une meilleure assise notariale. La réforme ouvre donc de nouvelles perspectives patrimoniales, et incite plus que jamais à la créativité lors de la rédaction du contrat de mariage.

Download or read book Class Actions in Canada written by Jasminka Kalajdzic and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whatever deficits remain in the Canadian project to make justice available to all, class actions have been heralded as a success. They have been employed over the past twenty-five years to overcome barriers to justice for those who would otherwise have no recourse to the courts. First proposing a conceptualization of access to justice that moves beyond mere access to a court procedure, leading expert Jasminka Kalajdzic then methodically assesses survey data and case studies to determine how class action practice fulfills or falls short of its objectives. Class Actions in Canada is a timely exploration of the evolution of collective litigation in Canada.

Download or read book Why Marriage written by George Chauncey and published by . This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing how the present is shaped by the past, the author of "Gay New York" explains why the campaign for same-sex marriage has become the most explosive issue in the long struggle for gay rights.

Download or read book Joseph II written by Walter W. Davis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that never has a monarch so narrowly missed "greatness" as did the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. An idealistic, sincere, and hardworking monarch whose ultilitarian bent, humanitarian instincts, and ambitious programs of reform in every area of public concern have prompted historians to term him an "enlightened despot," "revolutionary Emperor," "philosopher on a throne," and a ruler ahead of his time, Joseph has also been condemned for being insensitive to the phobias and follies of his subjects, essentially unrealistic, almost utopian, in establishing his goals, and dogmatic and overly precipitous in trying to achieve them. Efforts to analyze and explain the actions of this complex and controversial personality have involved a number of savants in investigations of "Josephinism" (or as I prefer to call it, "Josephism"), dealing in great detail with the motiva tions, substance, and influence of his innovations. The roots of Josephism run deep, but can be observed emerging here and there from the intellectual and political soil that nourished them, before joining the central trunk of the system formulated during the latter years of Maria Theresa's reign to grow to an ephemeral and stunted maturity under Joseph II.

Download or read book Women and Men in Renaissance Venice written by Stanley Chojnacki and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-04-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because limited family resources favored some daughters' marriage prospects at the expense of their sisters', the family and marriage practices of the Venetian nobles led to a range of vocations for women, as well as for men.

Download or read book Multilingual Thesaurus on Land Tenure written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains an English version of the FAO multilingual thesaurus covering terminology used in the field of land tenure, mainly relating to the following subjects: legal, institutional, historical, description of space, traditional or written land tenure regulations, topographical and land management information techniques. The purpose of the thesaurus is to provide reference material for FAO officials and field experts involved in the implementation of land tenure projects, as well as for use by researchers in rural development issues and for use in training in natural resource management.

Download or read book Law Family and Women written by Thomas Kuehn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Florence, Thomas Kuehn demonstrates the formative influence of law on Italian society during the Renaissance, especially in the spheres of family and women. Kuehn's use of legal sources along with letters, diaries, and contemporary accounts allows him to present a compelling image of the social processes that affected the shape and function of the law. The numerous law courts of Italian city-states constantly devised and revised statutes. Kuehn traces the permutations of these laws, then examines their use by Florentines to arbitrate conflict and regulate social behavior regarding such issues as kinship, marriage, business, inheritance, illlegitimacy, and gender. Ranging from one man's embittered denunciation of his father to another's reaction to his kinsmen's rejection of him as illegitimate, Law, Family, and Women provides fascinating evidence of the tensions riddling family life in Renaissance Florence. Kuehn shows how these same tensions, often articulated in and through the law, affected women. He examines the role of the mundualdus—a male legal guardian for women—in Florence, the control of fathers over their married daughters, and issues of inheritance by and through women. An ambitious attempt to reformulate the agenda of Renaissance social history, Kuehn's work will be of value to both legal anthropologists and social historians. Thomas Kuehn is professor of history at Clemson University.

Download or read book The Nature of African Customary Law written by Taslim Olawale Elias and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1956 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social Revolutions in the Modern World written by Theda Skocpol and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning 1979 book States and Social Revolutions, updates her arguments about social revolutions.

Download or read book Children in Antiquity written by Lesley A. Beaumont and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses classical studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and bioarchaeology. With a chronological range of the Bronze Age to Byzantium and regional coverage of Egypt, Greece, and Italy this is the largest survey of childhood yet undertaken for the ancient world. Within this chronological and regional framework both the social construction of childhood and the child’s life experience are explored through the key topics of the definition of childhood, daily life, religion and ritual, death, and the information provided by bioarchaeology. No other volume to date provides such a comprehensive, systematic and cross-cultural study of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean world. In particular, its focus on the identification of society-specific definitions of childhood and the incorporation of the bioarchaeological perspective makes this work a unique and innovative study. Children in Antiquity provides an invaluable and unrivalled resource for anyone working on all aspects of the lives and deaths of children in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Download or read book Bibliography on Islam in Contemporary Sub Saharan Africa written by Paul Schrijver and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: