People often purchase foreign properties through companies to sidestep local tax or inheritance laws.

They have already forced the island to drop inheritance laws that banned daughters or younger sons from inheriting any of the 40 tenancies.

However, the estates would do little more than abolish the obsolete marriage and inheritance laws and a few commercial monopolies.

It aims to compensate daughters, as the inheritance laws favor the sons.

Thus, there remains a mismatch between marriage practices and inheritance laws, with the strength and biases of the marriage practice often overriding inheritance laws.