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The Married Women's Property Act 1870 provided that wages and property which a wife earned through her own work or inherited would be regarded as her separate property and by the Married Women's Property Act 1882, this principle was extended to all property, regardless of its source or the time of its acquisition. [10]
United States, Mississippi: The Married Women's Property Act 1839 grants married women the right to own (but not control) property in her own name. [22] 1840. Republic of Texas: Married women allowed to own property in their own name. [22] United States, Maine: Married women allowed to own (but not control) property in their own name. [13]
The Married Women's Property Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 75) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that significantly altered English law regarding the property rights of married women, which besides other matters allowed married women to own and control property in their own right.
[276] [277] The court ruled that these laws were unconstitutional, asserting for the first time the right of Batswana women to inherit property. [ 277 ] Morocco: Morocco amended Article 475, which provided between one- and five-year prison sentence for a perpetrator that abducted or deceived a minor with no resort to violence or threat, or ...
By 1900, married women were allowed to own property in their own name in virtually the entire country. In the U.S., 1974 is often cited as the year of women’s mortgage liberation.
China: The new Civil Code granted equal inheritance rights, the right for women to choose their marriage partner, equal right to divorce and the right for women to control their own property after divorce. [120] Spain: Legal majority for married women (rescinded in 1939). [121] Spain: Equal right to profession (rescinded in 1939). [121]
Feminist goals at this time included the right to sue an ex-husband after divorce (achieved in 1857) and the right for married women to own property (fully achieved in 1882 after some concession by the government in 1870).
From 1918, with the rest of the United Kingdom, women in Ireland could vote at age 30 with property qualifications or in university constituencies, while men could vote at age 21 with no qualification. From separation in 1922, the Irish Free State gave equal voting rights to men and women.