Herencia, honor y conflictos familiares en el Aragón del siglo XVIII

Abstract

Family conflict was a common experience in past families close as it is today. This study is based on the reason that led to family breaking in the 18th Century Aragon and the lines society prescribed to avoid a total dissolution of a family kin. The most common causes analyzed for these breakdowns were marriage plans, inheritances and domestic violence, all gathered in different lawsuits. Aragonese law affects to these situations in a different way that Castilian law did. The particular interpretations of Aragonese lawyers printed in the lawsuits their perception of human condition.