The Married Women's Property Act 1884 (
47 & 48 Vict. c. 14) was an
act of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace ...
. The act relates solely to the giving of evidence in criminal matters, by husband and wife.
The whole act was repealed by section 33(3) of, and part III of schedule 3 to, the
Theft Act 1968
The Theft Act 1968 (c. 60) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It creates a number of offences against property in England and Wales.
On 15 January 2007 the Fraud Act 2006 came into force, redefining most of the offences of d ...
, subject to section 35(3).
Public General Statutes
/ref> The whole act was repealed, as to the Republic of Ireland, by section 19 of, and the Schedule to, the Married Women's Status Act, 1957.
See also
* Feme covert
*Married Women's Property Act 1882
The Married Women's Property Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 75) was an Act of Parliament (United Kingdom), act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that significantly altered English law regarding the property rights of married women, which besid ...
*Primogeniture
Primogeniture () is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn Legitimacy (family law), legitimate child to inheritance, inherit all or most of their parent's estate (law), estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some childre ...
Notes
References
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*Archibald Brown. The Married Women's Property Acts, 1870, 1874, 1882 and 1884. Sixth Edition. Stevens and Haynes. London. 1891
Page 93
*Charles Gregory Wade. The Married Women's Property Act, 1893. Hayes Brothers. Elizabeth Street, Sydney. 1894. Pages 279 an
280
*John Fraser Macqueen and Wyatt Paine. The Rights and Liabilities of Husband and Wife. Fourth Edition. Sweet and Maxwell. 1905
Page 89
*"Art III - Married Women's Property Act Amendment Bill" (1884) 15 Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Question
210
*Halsbury's Statutes of England. Second Edition
Volume 11
Pages 807 and 808.
*J M Lely. "Married Women's Property Act, 1884". The Statutes of Practical Utility. (Chitty's Statutes). Fifth Edition. Sweet & Maxwell. Stevens and Sons. 1895. Volume 7. Title "Married Women's Property"
Page 13
See also pages 8 and 10.
*W Paterson (ed). "Married Women's Property Act, 1884". The Practical Statutes of the Session 1884. Horace Cox. London. 1884. Page
26
to 29.
*Harry Greenwood and Lees Knowles. Real Property Statutes. Second Edition. Stevens and Sons. 1884. Pages 393,
397
and 398.
*Louis Arthur Goodeve. The Modern Law of Real Property. Second Edition. W Maxwell & Son. 1885. Page
568
and 571.
*"The Married Women's Property Act, 1884". Hood & Challis's Property, Settled Land, Trustee and Administration Acts
Eighth Edition
Stevens and Sons, Limited. 1938. Page 774.
*John Hutchinson. The Practice of Banking. Effingham Wilson and Co. London. Percival Pearse. Warrington. 1887. Page
703
and 704.
*(1954
218
The Law Times 16 and 17 (9 July 1954)
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United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1884
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