Dead Hands

  • Dead Hands: A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law
    Dead Hands: A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law
    By Lawrence M. Friedman

    Searles, John, Sears, Roebuck, & Co., See, Francis V., Self-proved wills, Seton Hall College of Medicine, Sex discrimination, Shameia, Saba George, Shammas, Carole, Shanks, John, Shannon, Patricia, Shaw, Carolyn and Lloyd, Shaw, ...

  • Dead Hands: A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law
    Dead Hands: A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law
    By Lawrence Friedman

    Dead Hands uncovers the tremendous social and legal importance of this rite of passage, and how it reflects changing values and priorities in American families and society.

  • Dead Hands
    Dead Hands
    By Howard Barker

    Howard Barker's play for three actors and a corpse exemplifies both his dramatic method and his philosophical concerns. Rejecting all forms of social realism, his plays are celebrations of speech...

  • Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern
    Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern
    By Katherine Rowe

    ... Thomas Peckett Prest's The Death Grasp ; or , A Father's Curse ( 1842 ) ; The Skeleton Clutch ; or The Goblet of Gore ( 1842 ) ; The Bloody Hand , or the Fatal Cup ( n . d . ) . 5. OED , " mortmain " n . a , c . 6. Randall . 7.

  • Dead Hands: A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law
    Dead Hands: A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law
    By Lawrence Friedman

    The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you can't take it with you. The stock of wealth that turns over as people die is staggeringly large. In...