In “Good for Business: Joint Property and Equal Inheritance in Burgher Marriages in Stockholm, 1480–1530,” Gabriela Bjarne Larsson argues that certainregulations in the Swedish Town Law facilitated devolutions and were used by burghers in Stockholm to promote business. She demonstrates that it was easy for spouses in the town to transfer lineal property from the male to the female line, something that, according to the Swedish Law of the Realm and in practice, was impossible to do in a rural marriage. The transactions made by husband and wife during the 1480s and 1520s in the town of Stockholm demonstrate a strong marital unit that always favoured the nuclear family – which in effect also meant their business – over their relatives. In the case of a death, the accumulated property of the partnership continued to be managed by the surviving spouse, even if he or she remarried. This, again, was out of the question for a widow in a rural setting.