Medicine and justice: medico-legal practice in England and Wales, 1700–1914

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in inheritance laws. These family structures with a remarried elderly parent, a new step-parent and adult children perhaps tend, more than others, to clash over inheritance and family assets. To conclude, this anthology is both a well-written and a most welcome contribution to Nordic legal history research on inheritance law. One of the great benefits of Nordic Inheritance Law is that it explores the significance of inheritance law from medieval times to the present through topical and in-depth studies that breathe life into both historical and contemporary inheritance practices. The mixture of historical and contemporary inheritance practices presented in the anthology works very well. The importance of inheritance and inheritance law in the past, the present and in the future is indisputable. Death is certain for every one of us, even though its hour is uncertain: mors certa, hora incerta.