Lord Westbury
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Westbury, L.C.
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Lord Chancellor whose judgment in Taylor v. Meads on a married woman's separate property is quoted at length.
“When the Courts of equity established the doctrine of the separate use of a married woman, and applied it to both real and personal estate, it became necessary to give the married woman, with respect to such separate property, an independent personal status, and to make her in equity a feme sole.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Privy Council judge quoted on the legal theory of the joint Hindoo family.
‘According to the true notion of a joint undivided Hindoo family,’ said the Privy Council, ‘no member of the family, while it remains undivided, can predicate of the joint undivided property that he, that particular member, has a certain definite share.