The Married Women's Property Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 93) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed married women to be the legal...
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The Married Women's Property Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 75) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that significantly altered English law regarding...
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Married Women's Property Act may refer to one of the following laws: United Kingdom: Married Women's Property Act 1870 Married Women's Property Act 1882...
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equal to unmarried women. Feme covert Married Women's Property Act 1884 Primogeniture "The Married Women's Property Acts (UK, 1870, 1882 and 1893)". Archived...
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Caroline Norton (category 19th-century English women writers)
passage of the Custody of Infants Act 1839, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and the Married Women's Property Act 1870. She modelled for the fresco of Justice...
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physical property excluding land property, and all other cash they generated once married. Prior to the passage of the Married Women's Property Act 1870 and...
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The Married Women's Property Act 1884 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act relates solely to the giving of evidence in criminal...
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legislation including the Married Women's Property Act 1870 and Married Women's Property Act 1882 which reformed women's property rights relating to marriage...
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wives' personal property until the Married Women's Property Act 1870 and Married Women's Property Act 1882 Children were the husband's property Rape was legally...
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Anne Brontë (category 19th-century English women writers)
the Married Women's Property Act 1870 was passed, a married woman had no legal existence independent from her husband and could not own property nor sue...
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campaigner influencing the Custody of Infants Act 1839, Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, and Married Women's Property Act 1870 Christabel Pankhurst (1880–1958) – suffragette...
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Feminism (redirect from Women's activist)
and gave women the right of custody of their children for the first time. Other legislation, such as the Married Women's Property Act 1870 in the UK...
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around women's ownership and the ongoing women's suffrage movement. The Married Women's Property Act 1870 gave women the right to retain property even once...
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1901). United Kingdom: Married Women's Property Act 1870 India: Female Infanticide Prevention Act, 1870 Mexico: Married women granted separate economy...
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supported women suffrage ideas since he was the author of the first British woman suffrage bill and the Married Women’s Property Acts in 1870 and 1882...
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onto her own money, an option only recently provided by the Married Women's Property Act 1870. This led to tensions within the marriage. The poisoning of...
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may be compulsory. Women are eligible to stand and vote for local school boards where created. Married Women's Property Act 1870 grants wives the ability...
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"Indians" (Native Americans living on reservations). The Naturalization Act of 1870 extended "the naturalization laws" to "aliens of African nativity and...
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Eliza Lynn Linton (category 19th-century English women writers)
so gain greater independence. (See Married Women's Property Act 1870 and Married Women's Property Act 1882.) Linton's contribution to a symposium on English...
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Act 1831 (1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 33) Sea Fisheries Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 45) Rattray's Estate Act 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 8) 33 & 34 Victoria - 1870 –...
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& 21 Vict. c. 39) Alkali Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 124) Married Women's Property Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 93) Fines Act (Ireland) 1851 (14 & 15 Vict...
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Barbara Bodichon (category British women's rights activists)
Plain Language of the Laws of England Concerning Women which helped pass Married Women's Property Act 1870. Bodichon was a Unitarian, who wrote of Theodore...
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Anna Mary Howitt (category English women painters)
collect signatures for a petition that would lead to the Married Women's Property Act 1870. Family accounts record her distress over criticism from John...
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Utah (1870), also granted women the right to vote. Women who owned property gained the right to vote in the Isle of Man in 1881, and in 1893, women in the...
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Bessie Rayner Parkes (category English women poets)
to try to change the restrictive property laws that applied to married women (see Married Women's Property Act 1870). Parkes also joined a group called...
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under section 11 of the Married Women's Property Act 1882 and section 2 of the Married Women's Policies of Assurance (Scotland) Act 1880 to illegitimate...
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Wyoming: full suffrage for women. 1870 United States – Utah Territory passed a law granting women's suffrage. Utah women citizens voted in municipal...
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The Law of Property Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 20) is a statute of the United Kingdom Parliament. It forms part of an interrelated programme of legislation...
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property in their own name. 1850 California: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act...
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First-wave feminism (category Timelines of women in history)
Kingdom: The Married Women's Property Act was passed in 1870 and expanded in 1874 and 1882, giving women control over their own earnings and property. 1871 Denmark:...
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