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  2. Married Women's Property Act 1882 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Married Women's Property Act 1870 - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the ...

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    United States, Kansas: Married Women's Property Act granted married women separate economy. [37] 1860. Norway: Women are allowed to teach in the rural elementary school system (in the city schools in 1869). [23] New Zealand: Married women allowed to own property (extended in 1870). [9]

  5. History of women in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Property owning women and widows had been allowed to vote in some local elections, but that ended in 1835. The Chartist Movement was a large-scale demand for suffrage—but it meant manhood suffrage. Upper-class women could exert a little backstage political influence in high society.

  6. Legal rights of women in history - Wikipedia

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    Particularly with the Liber Judiciorum as codified 642/643 and expanded on in the Code of Recceswinth in 653, women could inherit land and title and manage it independently from their husbands or male relations, dispose of their property in legal wills if they had no heirs, and women could represent themselves and bear witness in court by age ...

  7. Timeline of women's suffrage - Wikipedia

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    Isle of Man: all adults could vote or be elected, widows and single women who owned property could vote from 1881. Jamaica (British Crown Colony) Limited suffrage granted to women of twenty-five years or more, who earned £50 or more per year, or paid taxes of £2. (Universal adult suffrage not granted until 1944.) [59] [60]

  8. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the ...

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    United States, Florida: Mary R. Grizzle introduced and passed the Married Women Property Rights Act, which became law in 1970, giving married women in Florida, for the first time, the right to own property solely in their names and to transfer that property without their husbands' signatures. [282]

  9. Feminism in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    1882: The Married Women's Property Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c.75) was an Act of 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. The Act applied in England (and Wales) and ...