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Surprise Heirs I - Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights, and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750-1821 (Hardcover)
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Surprise Heirs I - Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights, and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750-1821 (Hardcover)
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This book situates the changing patrimonial rights of illegitimate
offspring in Brazil within a system of Luso-Brazilian heirship that
operated during the final half century of Portuguese colonial rule.
Besides offering the first detailed explanation of how the rules of
inheritance applied to people born outside wedlock, the book's
focus on illegitimacy and patrimony provides a new perspective for
assessing how family formation figured broadly in late colonial
Brazil's social evolution. Innovatively integrating legal history
with recent research on the post-1750 history of the family in
Brazil, the book reveals the significance of customary marriage and
consensual cohabitation, clerical concubinage, concealed paternity,
and foundling wheels for Latin American social organization. By
reformulating the private law of family and inheritance, Portuguese
legal nationalism transformed the juridical meaning of bastardy and
anticipated the emergence of the "surprise heir," who figured so
prominently in imperial Brazil's courtroom dramas and novels.
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