Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] ['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 | And , by the Married Women 's Property Act 1964 , any money derived by a wife from an allowance made by her husband for housekeeping purposes , or any property acquired out of it , is deemed , in the absence of any agreement between them to the contrary , to belong in equal shares to the husband and wife . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | First , although the Married Women 's Property Acts had given wives power to dispose of their separate property , nonetheless the courts viewed with suspicion gratuitous transactions by wives for the benefit of their husbands . |
| 6 | As the Rev. Septimus Hansard , the Rector of Bethnal Green , testified to the Select Committee on the issue : ‘ I think that it [ the Married Women 's Property Bill ] would raise the social condition of the wife considerably in the eyes of her husband ; as she is , practically , the great educator of the working classes , I think it would do a great deal to raise her ’ . |
| 7 | The Married Women 's Property Acts of the 1870s and 1880s permitted women to control their own property , although married women were not given the same capacity as single women to acquire , hold and dispose of property until 1935 . |
| 8 | Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy , for example , was associated with the suffrage movement , Butler 's campaign against the CD Acts , and the campaign for the Married Women 's Property Acts , while Millicent Fawcett , though withholding public support for Butler because she feared it would bring the suffrage movement into disrepute , in fact wholeheartedly approved of her work . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Well everyone has , everyone is entitled to vote and he also thinks that if the time is right when unmarried women were property and he thought it would n't be long before married women to hold property too , so he was also he wanted to reform the Married Women 's Property Act . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Such notice might also be given in an originating application under s 17 of the Married Women 's Property Act 1882 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |