D1.8.8: The Law of Inheritance

D1.8.8: The Law of Inheritance

Newspaper Clippings

Bleek discusses marriage law distinctions concerning the Law of Inheritance and the alienation of complex assets in Roman-Dutch Law and the divergent English Common Law systems. The Western and Eastern Provinces disagree on which system best serves the public interest. Bleek recommends Roman-Dutch Law's superior protection of women's and children's assets from those who may otherwise lawfully squander them. Bleek maintains that the less emphatic English Common Law is more susceptible to abuse, burdening parents (on a presumption of literacy) with the formulation of settlements.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

02 June 1864

One cut-out column of printed newsprint mounted on foolscap folio (warped).

Ownership (undivided versus divided), Hon. Mr Wood (George Wood), Bill (proposed by George Wood with Godlonton's support), Robert Godlonton

Pressed clippings of Victorian current affairs opinion pieces by Wilhelm Bleek. Published in Het Volksblad on Thursday, June 2nd, 1864. The Legislative Council (the upper house) and the House of Assembly (the lower house) were the two houses comprising the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope during this era of Representative Government (1853-1872).

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