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Kinship (Law)

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Customary law --- Ethnological jurisprudence. --- Kinship (Law) --- Sociological jurisprudence.

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Kinship. --- Kinship (Law) --- Human reproduction. --- Law and anthropology. --- Parenté --- Parenté (Droit) --- Reproduction humaine --- Droit et anthropologie

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A strict definition of kinship – a canonical one – was in introduced in to the Nordic medieval legislation. This replaced a looser definition. According to a canonical definition of kinship – constructed after the Church’s incest prohibitions, you were obligated towards all your blood-relatives. This doctrine applies where: 1) The kin group acted as a legal person towards a third party in cases about paying of wergeld, and where the kinsmen collectively took an oath. 2) Rights and obligations between the kindred regulated land transactions either by inheritance, donations or sale. Here the obligations were at their widest. The moral requirement for love and cohesiveness was strengthened by more substantial rules to ensure, that land was not transferred at the expense of kinsmen.

Canon law --- Domestic relations (Canon law) --- Kinship (Law) --- Law, Medieval --- Public law (Canon law) --- Law --- Ecclesiastical law --- Rescripts, Papal --- Domestic relations --- History --- History. --- Catholic Church

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"Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England offers a novel argument as to why Chinese and English pre-industrial economic development went down different paths. The dominance of Neo-Confucian social hierarchies in Late Imperial and Republican China, under which advanced age and generational seniority were the primary determinants of sociopolitical status, allowed many poor but senior individuals to possess status and political authority highly disproportionate to their wealth. In comparison, landed wealth was a fairly strict prerequisite for high status and authority in the far more 'individualist' society of early modern England, essentially excluding low-income individuals from secular positions of prestige and leadership. Zhang argues that this social difference had major consequences for property institutions and agricultural production"--

Kinship (Law) --- Property --- Confucianism --- Confucianism and law --- Filiation --- Propriété --- Confucianisme --- Confucianisme et droit --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development. --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Economic aspects. --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- Philosophie --- Aspect économique --- Philosophie. --- Aspect économique. --- Propriété --- Aspect économique.