Married women
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The Law of Torts
Married women, treated in tort law as subject to a historic contractual disability later altered by statute.
There exist partial exceptions, however, in the case of convicts and alien enemies, and apparent exceptions as to infants and married women.
Infants, married women, lunatics, are in different degrees and for different reasons incapable of the duties and rights arising out of contracts.
Since the Married Women’s Property Act, 1882, a married woman can acquire and hold separate property in her own name, and sue and be sued without joining her husband.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Women subject to coverture, whose property rights under the common law and equity, and subsequent reform by Parliament, form the subject of the passage.
Here we have constituted the “separate property,” or the “separate estate” of a married woman.
In 1870 two different methods of removing the injustice suffered by married women were open to reformers.
It was terminated by parliamentary legislation during the last third of the nineteenth century (1870-1893).