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...
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Levirate marriage (redirect from Wife inheritance)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Forced marriage (section Widow inheritance)
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...
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Halizah (category Widow inheritance)
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...
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Yevamot (category Widow inheritance)
Yevamot (Hebrew: יבמות, "Brother's Widow", also pronounced Yevamos, or Yavmus) is a tractate of the Talmud that deals with, among other concepts, the...
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Death Posthumous France Germany Chinese ghost marriage Widow inheritance Ghost marriage in South Sudan Levirate Yibbum Financial Boston Flash Hypergamy...
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Yibbum (category Widow inheritance)
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...
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(Konservierung von Pfarrwitwen). It is related to other forms of widow inheritance, including the levirate marriage known in the Old Testament as yibbum...
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Ghost marriage in South Sudan (category Widow inheritance)
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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Historical inheritance systems are different systems of inheritance among various people. Detailed anthropological and sociological studies have been made...
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Ukungenwa (category Widow inheritance)
Cultural practices such as ukuthwala (abducted marriages) and ukungenwa (widow inheritance) are expected to be outlawed in South Africa. Although the cultural...
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contention that in the context of HIV/AIDS and traditional rites of widow-inheritance, the church is challenged to offer more than just funeral services...
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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...
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violence related to accusations of witchcraft, mistreatment of widows (e.g. widow inheritance). Fighting against violence against women is considered a key...
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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...
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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)...
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This is a list of key characters in The Inheritance Cycle, a fantasy adventure series by Christopher Paolini. The series contains several hundred characters...
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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...
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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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concubinage in the Muslim world Waithood What your right hands possess Widow inheritance Quran 4:3 "Polygamy in Context." Common Grounds News Services. Alia...
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by identifying their share of inheritance in clear terms. It also completely forbade the practice of inheriting widows.[4:19] Orientalist Joseph Schacht...
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"Dominant Inheritance". Genetics Generation. Retrieved January 23, 2018. McDonald, John H. (December 8, 2011). "Myths of Human Genetics: Widow's peak: The...
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partners are more or less imposed on an individual. For example, widow inheritance provides a widow with another man from her late husband's brothers. In rural...
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Sati (practice) (redirect from Widow-burning)
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...
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Vol. 63, No. 2. Guyer, Jane I. (1986). "Beti Widow Inheritance and Marriage Law: A Social History". Widows in African Societies. Stanford University Press...
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of pregnant women, excessive feasting, unnecessary incision, and widow inheritance. Among the Bale Oromos, fungo is a belief that a dowsing rope will...
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Hadith of Muhammad's inheritance refers to a statement attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, in which he reportedly disinherited his family, leaving...
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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...
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