Married Women's Property Act 1882

1. The Law of Torts Sir Frederick Pollock 2 authority · 1 neutral 3 citations

   ch. 3 · ch. 6 · ch. 23

   Cited as statutory authority clarifying a limit on tort actions between spouses.

   We shall not imagine (for example) that the Married Women’s Property Act of 1882, by providing that husbands and wives cannot sue one another for a tort, has thrown doubt on the possibility of a judicial separation.

2. Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England A. V. Dicey 1 endorsed 1 citation

   ch. 41

   Discussed at length and with qualified approval in p-4bd92d as the central statute of the reform.

   The Married Women’s Property Act, 1882, brought, or tried to bring, the course of reform, commenced in 1870, to its logical and legitimate conclusion.

3. Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

   ch. 12 2 passages anchored here

   The Act is repeatedly invoked as a neutral point of comparison for gauging historical degrees of women's proprietary independence.

   ‘All the property which a woman may have acquired by inheritance, purchase, partition, seizure, or finding,’ is a comprehensive description of all the forms of property as defined by the modes of acquisition, and, if all this be Stridhan, it follows that the ancient Hindoo law secured to married women, in theory at all events, an even greater degree of proprietary independence than that given to t …

4. Law in a Free State Wordsworth Donisthorpe 1 refuted 1 citation

   chapter vi: marriage

   The Married Women's Property Acts are named directly and explicitly judged insufficient to secure married women's full control of their property.

   The truth is, Married Women's Property Acts may be passed one after the other, but until woman has the full control of her belongings, both before and after marriage, her name will still be Hagar.

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