Widow inheritance (also known as bride inheritance) is a cultural and social practice whereby a widow is required to marry a male relative of her late...

line. The anthropologist Ruth Mace also found that the practice of widow inheritance by younger brothers, common in many parts of Africa, serves to reduce...

New Guinea, are often widows. Widow inheritance (also known as bride inheritance) is a cultural and social practice whereby a widow is required to marry...

loss of certain forms of inheritance for remarrying a Hindu widow, though, under the Act, the widow forsook any inheritance due her from her deceased...

tribal elders named jirga. Widow inheritance, also known as bride inheritance, is a cultural and social practice whereby a widow is required to marry a kinsman...

(Konservierung von Pfarrwitwen). It is related to other forms of widow inheritance, including the levirate marriage known in the Old Testament as yibbum...

romanized: ḥəliṣā) in Rabbinical Judaism the process by which a childless widow and a brother of her deceased husband may avoid the duty to marry under...

In South Sudan, a ghost marriage is a marriage where a deceased groom is replaced by his brother. The brother serves as a stand in to the bride, and any...

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to the brother's widow would be deemed the heir of the deceased brother, and able to claim the deceased brother's share of inheritance. If the deceased...

Historical inheritance systems are different systems of inheritance among various people. Detailed anthropological and sociological studies have been made...

frontier could offer them. Most of these women were single, but some were widows, divorcées or runaways. Mail-order marriages gave Black women an escape...

Cultural practices such as ukuthwala (abducted marriages) and ukungenwa (widow inheritance) are expected to be outlawed in South Africa. Although the cultural...

violence related to accusations of witchcraft, mistreatment of widows (e.g. widow inheritance). Fighting against violence against women is considered a key...

Yevamot (Hebrew: יבמות, "Brother's Widow", also pronounced Yevamos, or Yavmus) is a tractate of the Talmud that deals with, among other concepts, the...

This is a list of key characters in The Inheritance Cycle, a fantasy adventure series by Christopher Paolini. The series contains several hundred characters...

International tax law distinguishes between an estate tax and an inheritance tax. An inheritance tax is a tax paid by a person who inherits money or property...

unions, like those between a man and his deceased wife's sister (see widow inheritance), to consanguineous unions. By the 1870s, Lewis Henry Morgan (1818–1881)...

because it is often used as a means to prevent inheritance of property by widows. In parallel, widows are also sometimes branded as witches – and subjected...

by identifying their share of inheritance in clear terms. It also completely forbade the practice of inheriting widows.[4:19] Orientalist Joseph Schacht...

divorce judgment. On the death of her partner, a wife is referred to as a widow. The rights and obligations of a wife to her partner and her status in the...

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revealed that the concept of inheritance was evolved centuries ago as a deviation from the custom of burying wealth, widows, and slaves along with the deceased...

other families, and the widow was sometimes adopted as an additional wife by a close relative of the deceased (see widow inheritance). However, due to men...

In the United Kingdom, inheritance tax is a transfer tax. It was introduced with effect from 18 March 1986, replacing capital transfer tax. The UK has...

"Dominant Inheritance". Genetics Generation. Retrieved January 23, 2018. McDonald, John H. (December 8, 2011). "Myths of Human Genetics: Widow's peak: The...

and Sikhs. The Act lays down a uniform and comprehensive system of inheritance and succession into one Act. The Hindu woman's limited estate is abolished...

Edwige Fenech. A beautiful young widow, Caterina, will only be able to benefit from her husband's huge inheritance if she gives birth to a child within...

proximity, and finally the widow of the deceased (excluded because she was assumed to form part of her father's inheritance, not her husband's). If any...

of support. Furthermore, many African indigenous traditions, like widow inheritance were made either completely illegal or restricted severely by colonial...