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The will contained an "unfulfilled gifts" clause, added at the last minute, which allowed the executors to freely distribute lands and honours to themselves and the court, [55] particularly to Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, the new king's uncle who became Lord Protector of the Realm, Governor of the King's Person and Duke of Somerset. [54]
Wife selling in its "ritual form" appears to be an "invented custom" that originated at about the end of the 17th century, [1] although there is an account from 1302 of someone who "granted his wife by deed to another man". [2]
The Wife is a 2003 novel by American writer Meg Wolitzer. The book was adapted into a film released in 2017, directed by Björn L. Runge , written by Jane Anderson , and starring Glenn Close , Jonathan Pryce , and Christian Slater .
The elective share is the modern version of the English common law concepts of dower and curtesy, both of which reserved certain portions of a decedent's estate which were reserved for the surviving spouse to prevent them from falling into poverty and becoming a burden on the community.
Ex-Wife is a 1929 novel written by Ursula Parrott and reissued by McNally Editions in 2023 with an afterword by Marc Parrott, the author's son, and a foreword by Alissa Bennett, a writer for the Paris Review.
In inheritance, a hereditary successor is a person who inherits an indivisible title or office after the death of the previous title holder. The hereditary line of succession may be limited to heirs of the body, or may pass also to collateral lines, in case of extinction of heirs of the body, depending on the succession rules.
The book was heavily criticized and Godwin was forced to revise it for a second edition in August of the same year. [9] Godwin's openness was not always appreciated by the people he named; Wollstonecraft's sisters, Everina and Eliza, lost students at the school they ran in Ireland as a result of the Memoir.
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