Surprise Heirs I: Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights, and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance,...

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Linda Lewin

Surprise Heirs I

Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights, and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750-1821...

Linda Lewin

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Stanford University Press
15 January 2003

Social & cultural history; Sociology: family & relationships; Personal property law

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.

By: Linda Lewin
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9780804738811
ISBN 10: 0804738815
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 15 January 2003
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Linda Lewin is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Politics and Parentela in Paraíba: A Case Study of Family-Based Oligarchy in Brazil.

Reviews for Surprise Heirs I: Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights, and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750-1821

Long after most of our books have been consigned to remote storage facilities or (worse yet) weeded, historians will continue to consult Lewin's invaluable Surprise Heirs volumes. -Hendrik Kraay, University of Calgary Linda Lewin has provided an invaluable contribution to historians of colonial and imperial Brazil. Few historians would be willing to brave the dense thicket of legal codes and commentaries that compromise the source base of this book. -Colonial Latin American Historical Review Lewin's two volume opus is an elegant and erudite offering in Brazilian legal and political history... Its great strength is its unflinching willingness to approach Brazilian legal and political cultures on their own terms. -Law and History Review