1882 Document Outlines For the First Time Full Financial Independence for Married Women

Women Property Rights

Pamphlet

"The Married Women’s Property Act, 1882." (45 and 46 Vict., c. 75). London: Ward, Lock & Co., Salisbury Square, E.C. 8.25 x 5.25 in. Original paper wraps with small losses along edges and tape on spine. Scattered light brown stains on cover along left edge. The Married Women’s Property Act of 1882 extended the rights granted in 1870 by giving women full financial independence, allowing them to buy and sell property, keep all earnings, and retain an inheritance of any size. At the time that this description is being written, no copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time.

The 1882 Married Women's Property Act. Under the terms of the act married women had the same rights over their property as unmarried women. This act therefore allowed a married woman to retain ownership of property which she might have received as a gift from a parent. Before the 1882 Married Women's Property Act was passed this property would have automatically have become the property of the husband. Married women now had full legal control of all the property of every kind which they owned at marriage or which they acquired after marriage either by inheritance or by their own earnings.

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