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The Act altered the common law doctrine of coverture to include the wife's right to own, buy and sell her separate property. [8] Wives' legal identities were also restored, as the courts were forced to recognize a husband and a wife as two separate legal entities, in the same manner as if the wife was a feme sole. Married women's legal rights ...
Once a woman became married, she had no claim to her property, as her husband had full control and could do whatever suited him regarding the property: "Thus, a woman, on marrying, relinquished her personal property—moveable property such as money, stocks, furniture, and livestock—to her husband's ownership; by law he was permitted to ...
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 Questions 210; Halsbury's Statutes of England. Second Edition. Volume 11. Pages 807 and 808. J M ...
By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband: under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our law-French a feme-covert; is ...
There was no workers' compensation until late in the Victorian era, and a husband too ill or injured to work often meant an inability to pay the rent and a stay at the dreaded Victorian workhouse. Throughout the Victorian era, some women were employed in heavy industry such as coal mining and steel production .
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (née Sheridan; 22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) [1] was an active English social reformer and author. [2] She left her husband, who was accused by many of coercive behaviour, in 1836.
Wife selling in England was a way of ending an unsatisfactory marriage that probably began in the late 17th century, when divorce was a practical impossibility for all but the very wealthiest. After parading his wife with a halter around her neck, arm, or waist, a husband would publicly auction her to the highest bidder.
Society and culture of the Victorian era refers to society and culture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era--that is the 1837-1901 reign of Queen Victoria. The idea of "reform" was a motivating force, as seen in the political activity of religious groups and the newly formed labour unions.