Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] women ['s] property " in BNC.
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1 | As a result of the Married Women 's Property Act 1882 , and later Acts , the capacity of a married woman to own property , to make contracts , and to incur liability for torts was different from that of a man . |
2 | Even married women , before the enactment of the Married Women 's Property Act of 1882 , might find themselves trapped in dependence upon their husbands in a loveless marriage . |
3 | Until the passing of the Married Women 's Property Act the husband 's marriage vow , ‘ with all my worldly goods I thee endow ’ , was ironic . |
4 | The only campaign undertaken by mainstream feminists in the late nineteenth century to improve the position of wives was in support of the Married Women 's Property Acts , which aided only middle class women . |
5 | Transfer can not be ordered where an Act or statutory instrument other than the 1981 Rules , eg s 17 of the Married Women 's Property Act 1982 , requires the matter to be commenced in a particular court ( Ord 16 , r 3 ) . |
6 | Such notice might also be given in an originating application under s 17 of the Married Women 's Property Act 1882 . |
7 | The mere issue of matrimonial proceedings for a property adjustment order does not automatically sever a joint tenancy ( Harris v Goddard [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 1203 ) but the issue of proceedings under s17 of the Married Women 's Property Act 1882 can cause severance to occur ( Re Draper 's Conveyance [ 1969 ] 1 Ch 486 ) as does the bankruptcy of one of the parties ( Re Gorman ( a bankrupt ) [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 616 ) . |
8 | She suggests that in the 1850s divorce became the ‘ solution ’ to the threat of a Married Women 's Property Act ( not achieved until the last quarter of the nineteenth century ) , which would have threatened ‘ the symbolic economy that depended on and institutionalized ( such ) binary oppositions ’ . |