...This chapter explores how Hispano families in northern New Mexico have reworked the traditional application of inheritance, referring to property passed down the generations, to conceive of heroin addiction as “inherited.” It shows how this emerging formation of inheritance is shaped by, and speaks...

... teacher at Harvard. On January 29, 1786, Albert Gallatin reached the age of twenty-five and was entitled to his inheritance from both from his grandfather Abraham Gallatin of Pregny and from his uncle. The very next month, in February 1786, he bought a four-hundred-acre farm in Fayette County...

.... Under current statutes, a man who conceives a child out of wedlock is the legal father if a paternity test proves he is the biological father. In child support cases, the man must provide child support if the child satisfies the requirements of the state's paternity statute. With regard to inheritance...

... Raphael Bernstein Robin Black family Abolition Independence Interdependence Glatt Carra Discipline Wilkins John Wilkins Naomi Black men individual Cubber Dinah Emancipation Imagination Woman Exclusion Feminism Phillis Wheatley slavery childhood elegy prodigy property inheritance law...

... the kin relationship is no longer needed. Major financial gifts or support are given to care workers which approximate but are not equivalent to inheritance. Both care workers and patients use kin terms like “younger brother” (said seriously) or “second wife” (said jokingly). Practical kinship is subject...

...This chapter focuses on the inheritance left by Richard Edwards as part of his last will and testament. Richard Edwards did not have a hard time rebuilding his life following his divorce from Elizabeth Tuttle. He remarried less than six months after the divorce was granted, and in less than a year...

...This chapter focuses on efforts to recognize and increase women’s access to economic goods like employment, credit, and inheritance. Women’s economic rights are considered central to bettering their own lives, the lives of their families, and their states, illustrated in the phrase that women...