Why did the practice of partible inheritance become a problem in eighteenth-century new england?

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The Beginnings of Partible Inheritance in the American Colonies

The Yale Law Journal

Vol. 51, No. 8 (Jun., 1942)

, pp. 1280-1315 (36 pages)

Published By: The Yale Law Journal Company, Inc.

https://doi.org/10.2307/792599

https://www.jstor.org/stable/792599

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