Puzzling Acquisitions of Property by Death in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Leslie Katz (Independent) published Puzzling Acquisitions of Property by Death in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 2023. Provided below is the Abstract:

In Dracula there are a number of instances in which a person acquires an interest in property as a result of the death of another person who’d died while holding an interest in that property. In the paper, I discuss six instances of such an acquisition, all of which involved a member of the Westenra family, either as the person who died or as the person who acquired the interest. Stoker mostly had his law wrong when discussing those acquisitions. In one instance, the acquisition was also most unrealistic.