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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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)...

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

phrase "surrogate marriage" may refer to marriage as the result of widow inheritance or "woman-to-woman marriage" among certain African communities where...

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...

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...

Historical inheritance systems are different systems of inheritance among various people. Land inheritance customs greatly vary across cultures. The Ethnographic...

women, especially those to the inheritance of property. A cold form of sati, or the neglect and casting out of Hindu widows, has been prevalent from ancient...

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...

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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his disappearance, which prevented Lady Lucan from receiving any widow’s inheritance or estate benefits. It wasn’t until 1999, 25 years after his disappearance...

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

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

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

kind of marriage. 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...

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

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

of pregnant women, excessive feasting, unnecessary incision, and widow inheritance. Among the Bale Oromos, fungo is a belief that a dowsing rope will...

replace her in the matrimonial home. Widow inheritance is or was practised by many cultures; when a man died, his widow was forced to marry one of his brothers...

shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relative. In most contexts, it means the inheritance of the firstborn...

Vol. 63, No. 2. Guyer, Jane I. (1986). "Beti Widow Inheritance and Marriage Law: A Social History". Widows in African Societies. Stanford University Press...