Herederas en la legislación castellana entre mediados del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX

In this paper we present an excerpt from our doctoral thesis on the inheritance practices of small and medium landowners in the Buenos Aires countryside in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. We explore the Castilian regulations on inheritance from a gender perspective that frames one of the central hypotheses of our work. We argue that, within the existing legislation for the proposed period and space, inheritance provisions did not impose restrictions on the ability of women to transmit or receive inheritances, maintaining a situation of relative equality with respect to men. This legal interstice will be our framework for analyzing the economic, social and legal roles assigned to and assumed by women during the colony and the early years of independence.