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L'édit des Mères en Provence (1567-1729) : un exemple de la difficile application des ordonnances royales en pays de droit écrit

2007

The Edict of Saint-Maur, adopted in May 1567, or Edict of the Mothers, is presented as that must introduce the paterna paternis rule in the countries which ignore it, as it's the case in Provence where prevails Novella 118, calling to the succession of the de cujus its directs parents without distinction between the possessions resulting from the paternal or maternal line. So, from 1575, date of the recording of an interpretative Statement of this Edict, until 1729 year of its abrogation, the Parliament of Provence is anxious to grant to the mothers, who are particularly aimed by the royal act, only furnitures and acquests of their dead child as well as the usufruct on half of the own. For …