Swedish Probate Inventory

The inventory of the bouppteckning was a very detailed list of all real-estate, household items, tools, and personal belongings of the deceased. Each item on the inventory was appraised and given a value. The entire inventory was totaled. The inventory (bouppteckning) was then turned in to the local district court or to the city court. The court judge in the next court session would then decide the distributioin of the estate. The document for the distribution was called the arvskifte.

The inventory was divided into sections. Some sections could be: • 2

The inventory was very detailed. By law every item belonging to the deceased had to be listed and valued. Below is a small list of some of the items that might have been included: • 3

A vocabulary list (in Swedish only) of items that may appear in the inventory (especially old tools and farming equipment) was put online by Domboksforskning. This page is now gone, but an archived version from 3 February 2020 is available on Internet Archives' Wayback Machine.