possibilities to act in relation to the carrying out of each acquisition. The right of inheritance and the pre-emptive right have, to varying degrees, affected the possibilities to act. It has therefore been important for me to investigate what the boundaries have been in order to establish when one followed the law and when one deviated from it. Generally speaking, I have concluded that the applicable law of the realm in each region was followed. The legal rules pertaining to both inheritance and descent in Jämtland (Magnus Lagaböter’s Law of the realm) favoured living male heirs in the line of succession – in any direction – over a sister. This constitutes the greatest difference between the Norwegian and Swedish (Magnus Eriksson’s Law of the realm) national laws which otherwise contained the same statutory right for women to inherit one third. Since only brothers had priority according to Swedish law, one could say that a woman’s pre-emptive right was stronger here than in Norway. In my investigations, the practice of separating men’s and women’s land in Finnveden stood out clearly, something which certainly promoted the male relatives’ power over the land but, at the same time, strengthened women’s possibilities when their pre-emptive right was activated. The legal differences are reflected in the differences between the regions with regard to the legal acquisition in question.All acquisitions were influenced, more or less, by inheritance- and marriage regulations. Below, we can see which legal acquisitions were most common in the regions I investigated. p a r t v i 1 279
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