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In an exception to the statutory expansion of the legal rights of married women, the California Constitution of 1849, drawing on the community property tradition of Spanish civil law rather than the common law tradition, distinguished a wife's property from community property: "All property, both real and personal, of the wife, owned or claimed ...
Mississippi: The Married Women's Property Act 1839 grants married women the right to own (but not control) property in her own name. [10] 1840. Maine: Married women are given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name. [4] 1841. Maryland: Married women are given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name ...
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 ...
The Act dealt mostly with the earnings of married women and was not very specific about married women's property rights. A major loophole was that any personal property (personalty) as opposed to real property a woman had in her own name before marriage still legally became her husband's property: money, furniture, stocks and livestock.
Ten of the late Josefina Zamarripa's 13 surviving children pose with Josefina and Guillermo Zamarripa's 1945 wedding photo. After Guillermo's death in 1964, Josefina raised her children in a two ...
An elderly Alabama woman living on a plot of land thought to be worth over $20 million will soon be kicked out of her longtime home after an ownership tussle with private investors.
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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 ...