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Biblioteca THE MARRIED WOMEN’S PROPERTY ACT (1874)

THE MARRIED WOMEN’S PROPERTY ACT (1874)

THE MARRIED WOMEN’S PROPERTY ACT (1874)

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Date of publication
Fevereiro 1874
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ISBN / Resource ID
OBL:67717

INDIA Act III, 1874....."Whereas it is expedient to make such provision as hereinafter appears for the enjoyment of
wages and earnings by women married before the first day of January, 1866, and for insurances
on lives by persons married before or after that day:
And whereas by the Indian Succession Act, 1865, section 4,1 it is enacted that no person shall by
marriage acquire any interest in the property of the person whom he or she marries, nor become
incapable of doing any act in respect of his or her own property, which he or she could have
done, if unmarried : ·
And whereas by force of the said Act all women to whose marriages it applies are absolute
owners of all property vested in, or acquired by, them, and their husbands do not by their
marriage acquire any interest in such property, but the said Act does not protect such husbands
from liabilities on account of the debts of their wives contracted before marriage, and does not
expressly provide for the enforcement of claims by or against such wives :
It is hereby enacted as follows : -,,,

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