Gender-neutral Succession Law in Norway: A Long and Winding Road

By John Asland, University of Oslo.

In Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages. Editors: Marianne Holdgaard, Auður Magnúsdóttir, and Bodil Selmer.

 

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This article describes and analyses the process leading up to equal inheritance rights for male and female heirs in Norway and the counter-measures taken in the Norwegian Inheritance Act of 1854 and later as a consequence of the act, especially regarding freedom of testation and allodial rights.


E-Book ISBN: 9789004435582

Published 29 June 2020, Brill & The Hague Academy of International Law

 

 

 

 

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