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Among the many local legislations that excluded women from inheritance from the 12th century on in the Western Mediterranean, Paduan statutes are surprisingly harsh. In the 14th century, the Scaligeri and Carraresi signori chose to distance themselves from Venetian legislation in order to favour upper-class patrimonial concentration. Female exclusion then became a legal tool to assert social pre-eminence against foreign investments in the entroterra and political dispossession.
