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Eileen Spring presents an interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy. In a work that recasts both the history of real property law and the history of the family, she argues that one of the principal and determinative features of upper-class inheritance was the virtual exclusion of females from land holding. Tracing the gradual nullification of common law rules under which 40 per cent of English land would have been inherited or held by women, Spring seeks to makes possible a fuller understanding of the social history of land law.

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"ÝA¨ significant and highly original study.""Choice"" ÝM¨akes a highly technical and complex topic accessible to a wide audience and she does so with a timely twist.""Law and History Review"" Ingeniously original, Spring's work is sure to generate a great deal of rethinking .Morris S. Arnold, United States Court of Appeals This is an admirable study, lucidly and economically argued.""Cambridge Law Journal"" ""Ingeniously original, Spring's work is sure to generate a great deal of rethinking .Morris S. Arnold, United States Court of Appeals"" ""This is an admirable study, lucidly and economically argued.""Cambridge Law Journal"""" [A] significant and highly original study.""Choice"" [M]akes a highly technical and complex topic accessible to a wide audience and she does so with a timely twist.""Law and History Review"" It will be quite impossible for social or legal historians in the future to ignore the arguments presented here.""Times Literary Supplement"""

YMakes a highly technical and complex topic accessible to a wide audience and she does so with a timely twist. Law and History Review This is an admirable study, lucidly and economically argued. Cambridge Law Journal Ingeniously original, Spring's work is sure to generate a great deal of rethinking .Morris S. Arnold, United States Court of Appeals YA significant and highly original study. Choice It will be quite impossible for social or legal historians in the future to ignore the arguments presented here. Times Literary Supplement Ingeniously original, Spring's work is sure to generate a great deal of rethinking .Morris S. Arnold, United States Court of Appeals [A] significant and highly original study. Choice [M]akes a highly technical and complex topic accessible to a wide audience and she does so with a timely twist. Law and History Review This is an admirable study, lucidly and economically argued. Cambridge Law Journal

�M�akes a highly technical and complex topic accessible to a wide audience and she does so with a timely twist. Law and History Review Ingeniously original, Spring's work is sure to generate a great deal of rethinking .Morris S. Arnold, United States Court of Appeals This is an admirable study, lucidly and economically argued. Cambridge Law Journal �A� significant and highly original study. Choice It will be quite impossible for social or legal historians in the future to ignore the arguments presented here. Times Literary Supplement [M]akes a highly technical and complex topic accessible to a wide audience and she does so with a timely twist. Law and History Review Ingeniously original, Spring's work is sure to generate a great deal of rethinking .Morris S. Arnold, United States Court of Appeals This is an admirable study, lucidly and economically argued. Cambridge Law Journal [A] significant and highly original study. Choice

&amp;Yacute;M akes a highly technical and complex topic accessible to a wide audience and she does so with a timely twist. Law and History Review

YMakes a highly technical and complex topic accessible to a wide audience and she does so with a timely twist. Law and History Review Ingeniously original, Spring's work is sure to generate a great deal of rethinking .Morris S. Arnold, United States Court of Appeals This is an admirable study, lucidly and economically argued. Cambridge Law Journal YA significant and highly original study. Choice [A] significant and highly original study. Choice It will be quite impossible for social or legal historians in the future to ignore the arguments presented here. Times Literary Supplement [M]akes a highly technical and complex topic accessible to a wide audience and she does so with a timely twist. Law and History Review Ingeniously original, Spring's work is sure to generate a great deal of rethinking .Morris S. Arnold, United States Court of Appeals This is an admirable study, lucidly and economically argued. Cambridge Law Journal

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Eileen Spring is an independent scholar who lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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