Der Einfluss religiöser Vorstellungen auf die Entwicklung des Erbrechts

This book discusses the influence of religious ideas on the law of succession, i.e. one of the areas of private law which are, according to general opinion, particularly strongly shaped by cultural factors. It deals with four of the seven major legal traditions in the world (continental civil law, the English common law, Jewish law, and Islamic law) as well as with a manifestation of a fifth, the chthonic legal tradition (the law of the Germanic tribes).Reinhard Zimmermann: Einführung - Martin Avenarius: Römisches Erbrecht und Religion: Interdependenzen von Herrschafts-, Vermögens- und Kultperpetuierung in Pontifikaljurisprudenz sowie Dogmatik und Praxis des ius civile - Jan Hallebeek: Dispositions ad pias causas in Gratian's Decretum: Should the Portio Christi be Restricted to a Child's Share? - Richard Helmholz: Religion and Succession in the History of English Law - Bernd Kannowski: Germanisches Erbrecht und Religion - Shael Herman: From Generation to Generation: Continuities of Jewish and Israeli Inheritance Regulation in the Light of Jewish Legal Sources - B enjamin Jokisch: Der Einfluss religiöser Vorstellungen auf die Entwicklung des Erbrechts: vom vorislamischen zum islamischen Erbrecht