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  • 5 - Societas and Fraterna of Brothers

  • Thomas Kuehn, Clemson University, South Carolina
  • Book:
    Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy
    Published online:
    24 February 2022
    Print publication:
    03 March 2022, pp 100-136

  • Summary

    Brothers often chose to remain together after their father's death, sharing the house and its furnishings, while pursuing common or separate enterprises. Such practices accorded well with advice and aspirations for continued family sharing. However, brothers' contributions were not so easily balanced, and eventually many fraternal households came to a division of assets, for which legal personnel, notaries and lawyers, were essential. Liabilities, which had nominally been shared while together, were also subject to division or denial. Jurists demanded an absolute standard (no separate accounting of holdings, earnings, and expenses) in order to hold liabilities in common. Here the legal presumptions of individual ownership proved deep-seated.