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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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    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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  • Married Women's Property Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 75) Married Women's Property Act 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 14) Married Women's Property Act 1893 (56...
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    regarding the property rights granted to married women. It completed the Married Women's Property Act 1882 by granting married women the same property rights...
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    section 19 of, and the Schedule to, the Married Women's Status Act, 1957. Feme covert Married Women's Property Act 1882 Primogeniture The Routledge Dictionary...
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  • For example, married women in England and Wales were legally incapable of owning real estate until the Married Women's Property Act 1882. During the feudal...
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    Wife (redirect from Married women)
    husband is the one." Married women's property rights in the English-speaking world improved with the Married Women's Property Act 1882 and similar legal...
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    Finally, counsel for the husband said that, under s 17 of the Married Women’s Property Act 1882, this house would be owned by the husband and the wife jointly;...
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    Married Women's Property Act 1882 the property and legal rights of married women in Britain were severely limited. Under English common law a married...
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    18 – The Married Women's Property Act 1882 receives royal assent in Britain; it enables women to buy, own and sell property, and to keep their own earnings...
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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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  • English land law Entitlement theory Housing First Married Women's Property Act 1882 Property law Property rights (economics) Real estate business Real estate...
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    husbands or fathers. In addition, before the passage of the Married Women's Property Act 1882, all of a wife's assets passed automatically to her husband...
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    Balfour v Balfour on the fact that Mr and Mrs Merritt, although still married, were estranged at the time the agreement was made and therefore any agreement...
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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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  • Land law Legal rights of women in history Married Women's Property Acts in the United States Married Women's Property Act 1882 Primogeniture Agarwal, Bina...
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    Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Act 1970 (c. 45) is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning court cases between married people. The most important...
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  • Society (1886) 2 TLR 755 Griffiths v. Fleming [1909] 1 KB 805; Married Women's Property Act 1882, section 11. "Insurance Contract Law: Insurable Interest"...
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  • Law Review. 53: 477. Griffiths v. Fleming [1909] 1 KB 805; Married Women's Property Act 1882, section 11. Report on Family Law; Cohabitation, s. XVI Archived...
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    The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese...
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    (Note that this case preceded the Married Women's Property Act 1882, which enabled married women to retain their property.) In the 1930s the Law Reform Committee...
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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. After...
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  • turn of the 19th century and became obsolete with the Married Women's Property Act 1882. Women convicted of capital crimes were permitted to plead that...
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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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    bill which became the Married Women's Property Act 1882 which gave wives absolute control over their property and earnings. He married Emmeline Goulden, better...
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  • Married Women's Property Act 1882 in English Law and Irish Law (and similar acts during the same period in American law), it was usual for a married woman...
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  • the Married Women's Property Act 1882 that female British citizens were no longer legally compelled, upon marriage, to transfer all their property to their...
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    of the Married Women's Property Act 1882, all of a wife's assets passed automatically to her husband. The men who were in charge of these women, either...
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  • establishment of the legal power of married women to own assets in their own right, following the Married Women's Property Act 1882; the lesser involvement and...
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  • Courtesy tenure (category Property law of the United Kingdom)
    title to the tenancy vests only on the death of the wife. The Married Women's Property Act 1882 did not affect the right of courtesy so far as relating to...
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