Sistemas de herencia y transmisión de la propiedad en Iparralde bajo el Antiguo Régimen

LAFOURCADE, Maite

Publication year:

1999

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-987-8

ISSN:

1136-6834

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Summary

Successoral law in Iparralde assured the indivisibility of family patrimonies. The child that was "destined to the house" was the first-born without distinction of gender, except in noble goods and on the slopes of the mountains in Zuberoa and Lower Nafarro a where the privilege of masculinity, of feudal origin, had penetrated. The other children received, when they left the natal house, what their parents wanted to give them, pretty much depending on the importance of the hamlet and without damaging the unity of the family patrimony.