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

Dead Hands: A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law

Lawrence M. Friedman

240 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

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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 the United States alone, some $41 trillion will pass from the dead to the living in the fir...

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