The Married Women's Property ACT, 1870; Its Relations to the Doctrine of Separate Use, with Notes (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...In case of a the date of the sentence and whilst the separation shall continue, judicial separabe considered as a feme sole with respect to property of every tion, the wife to description which she may acquire or which may come to or devolve be considered a upon her; and such property may be disposed of by her in all feme sole wlth respect to pro-respects as a feme sole, and on her decease the same shall, in case peity slie may she shall die intestate, go as the same would have gone if her acquire, &c. husband had been then dead: Provided that if any such wife should again cohabit with her husband, all such property as she may be entitled to when such cohabitation shall take place shall be held to her separate use, subject, however, to any agreement in writing made between herself and her husband while separate. Also for pur- 26. In every case of a judicial separation, the wife shall, whilst poses of con-so separated, be considered as a feme sole for the purposes of contract and suing, tract, and wrongs and injuries, and suing and being sued in any civil proceeding; and her husband shall not be liable in respect of any engagement or contract she may have entered into or for any wrongful act or omission by her, or for any costs she may incur as plaintiff or defendant: Provided, that where, upon any such judicial separation, alimony has been decreed or ordered to be paid to the wife, and the same shall not be duly paid by the husband, he shall be liable for necessaries supplied for her use: Provided also, that nothing shall prevent the wife from joining, at any time during such separation, in the exercise of any joint power given to herself and her husband. 21 & 22 Vict. An Act to amend the Twentieth and Twenty-first Victoria, Chapter c. 108. Ei...