Inheritance Practice and the Elderly in Central Europe: The Example of Western Bohemia

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Inheritance Practice and the Elderly in Central Europe: The Example of Western Bohemia
Original language description
The study deals with the influence of inheritance law on generational change and on the position of retired farmers in their old age. It is based on research, carried out in the domain of Šťáhlavy in western Bohemia for the period 1700 – 1850. In Bohemia, until 1787, it was the farmer’s youngest son who inherited the farm. The father only rarely lived long enough to see his heir grow into major age and to enjoy his life in retirement. His choice of the moment of property transfer to the next generation was rather limited. This situation changed after 1787, when a royal decree was issued stipulating that it should now be the oldest son to inherit the family farm, unless the father decided differently in his testament. A gradual introduction of this rule enabled fathers to enjoy much more freedom in their decisions on their specific family situations. Also, when the farmers no longer had to run their farm for as long as possible, they retired at a younger age than before – mostly around sixty years of age. Only those farmers who died before reaching sixty held the farm until their death.
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
The History of Families and Households: Comparative European Dimensions
ISBN
978-90-04-30785-8
Number of pages of the result
24
Pages from-to
232-255
Number of pages of the book
263
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden
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