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MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Section 4

Title: Married women's earnings to be their separate property

State: Central

Year: 1874

The wages and earnings of any married woman acquired or gained by her after the passing of this Act, in any employment, occupation or trade carried on by her and not by her husband, and also any money or other property so acquired by her through the exercise of any literary, artistic or scientific skill, and all savings from and investments of such wages, earnings and property, shall be deemed to be her separate property, and her receipts alone shall be good discharges for such wages, earnings and property.

Presidency-towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Section 70

Title: Joint and Separate Properties

State: Central

Year: 1909

Where one partner in a firm is adjudged insolvent, a creditor to whom the insolvent is indebted jointly with the other partners in the firm or any of them shall not receive any dividend out of the separate property of the insolvent until all the separate creditors have received the full amount of their respective debts.

Hindu Gains of Learning Act, 1930 Section 3

Title: Gains of Learning Not to Be Held, Not to Be Separate Property of Acquirer Merely for Certain Reasons

State: Central

Year: 1930

Notwithstanding any custom, rule or interpretation of the Hindu law, no gains of learning shall be held not to be the exclusive and separate property of the acquirer merely by reason of-- (a) His learning having been, in whole or in part, imparted to him by any member, living or deceased, of his family, or with the aid of the joint funds of his family, or with the aid of the funds of any member thereof, or (b) Himself or his family having, while he was acquiring his learning, been maintained or supported, wholly or in part, by the joint funds of his family, or by the funds of any member thereof.

MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Complete Act

Title: MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874

State: Central

Year: 1874

Preamble1 - MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Chapter I Section1 - Short title Section2 - Extent and application Section3 - Commencement [Repealed] Chapter II Section4 - Married women's earnings to be their separate property Chapter III Section5 - Married women may effect policy of insurance Section6 - Insurance by husband for benefit of wife Chapter IV Section7 - Married women may take legal proceedings Section8 - Wife's liability for post-nuptial debts Chapter V Section9 - Husband not liable for wife's ante-nuptial debts ChapterVI - HUSBAND'S LIABILITY FOR BREACH OF TRUST OF DEVASTATION Section10 - Extent of husband's liability for wife's breach of trust or devastation

Indian Divorce Act, 1869 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1869

.....for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in England and it omits the provision in 20 and 21 Vic. Ch.85 respecting the occasional trial of questions of fact by juries. In respect of fees, it has been considered that the Act 20 of 1862 (lately continued by the governor-general in Council for another year) renders special legislation unnecessary. The power of intervening in suits, given by 23 and 24 Vic. Ch. 144, to the Attorney General and the Queen's Proctor is, in this Bill, given to the Advocate General and the Solicitor to Government. There are also other variations of a minor and verbal character. The Draft Bill having been submitted to the Judges of the several High Courts, with request that they would favour the Government with their opinions on it communications have been received, from the Judges at Calcutta and Bombay and will be laid before the Council. In these letters there are several important suggestions, and the Honourable the Chief Justice of the High Court at Calcutta has intimated that he considers it doubtful whether decrees by the High Court under the proposed Act, dissolving the marriages of persons who have been married in England would have legal effect.....

Evacuee Interest Separation Act 1951 [Repealed] Chapter II

Title: Separation of Evacuee Interest in Composite Property

State: Central

Year: 1951

.....or the claimant the amount payable under the mortgage debt and redeem the mortgaged property; or (ii) sell the mortgaged property for satisfaction of the mortgage debt and distribute the sale proceeds thereof; or (iii) partition the property between the mortgagor and the mortgagee having regard to the share to which the mortgagee would be entitled in lieu of his claim; (c) adopt a combination of all or some of the aforesaid measures: Provided that before taking any measure under this section, the competent officer shall take into account the order of preference filed by the claimant under clause (f) of sub-section (2) of section 7; and in any case where the claimant is a mortgagor and tenders the amount due, the competent officer shall accept the same in full satisfaction of the mortgage debt. Section 11 - Vesting of evacuee interest in the Custodian free from encumberances and payments, etc., to be valid discharge from all claims (1) Where in respect of any property, notice under section 6 is issued but no claim is filed or found to exist or where any claim in respect of such property is found to exist and the competent officer separates the evacuee interest.....

MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1874

.....the first day of January, 1866, and for insurances on lives by persons married before or after that day : AND WHEREAS by the Indian Succession Act, 1865, section 4, it is enacted that no person shall by marriage acquire any interest in the property of the person whom he or she marries, nor become incapable of doing any act in respect of his or her own property, which he or she could have done, if unmarried : AND WHEREAS by force of the said Act all women to whose marriages it applies are absolute owners of all property vested in, or acquired by, them, and their husbands do not by their marriage acquire any interest in such property, but the said Act does not protect such husbands from liabilities on account of the debts of their wives contracted before marriage, and does not expressly provide for the enforcement of claims by or against such wives: It is hereby enacted as follows :- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE This Act may be called the Married Women's Property Act, 1874- SECTION 02: EXTENT AND APPLICATION 2[It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.] But nothing herein contained applies to any married woman who at the time of her marriage.....

Presidency-towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Part III

Title: Administration of Property

State: Central

Year: 1909

.....prescribed to the persons whose claims to be creditors have been notified to him but not proved that, if they do not prove their claims, to the satisfaction of the Court, within the time limited by the notice, he will proceed to make a final dividend without regard to their claims. (2) After the expiration of the time so limited, or, if the Court on application by any such claimant grants him further time for establishing his claim, then on the expiration of that further time, the property of the insolvent shall be divided among the creditors who have proved their debts, without regard to the claims of any other persons. {S.74 has been amended in its application to Bombay and Madras by the Presidency-towns Insolvency (Bombay Amendment) Act, 1933 (Bom.20 of 1933), s.2, and the Presidency-towns Insolvency (Madras Amendment) Act, 1943 (Mad.5 1943), s.6 } Section 74 - No suit for dividend No suit for a dividend shall lie against the official assignee, but, where the official assignee refuses to pay any dividend, the Court may, on the application of the creditor who is aggrieved by such refusal, order him to pay it, and also to pay out of his own money interest thereon at such.....

Transfer of Property Act, 1882 Chapter IV

Title: Of Mortgages of Immovable Property and Charges

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....of the receiverwas valid or not. (6) The receiver shall be entitledto retain out of any money received by him, for his remuneration, and insatisfaction of all costs, charges and expenses incurred by him as receiver, acommission at such rate not exceeding five per cent, on the gross amount of allmoney received as is specified in his appointment, and, if no rate is sospecified, then at the rate of five per cent. on that gross amount, or at suchother rate as the Court thinks fit to allow, on application made by him for thatpurpose. (7) The receiver shall, if sodirected in writing by the mortgagee, insure to the extent, if any, to which themortgagee might have insured, and keep insured against loss or damage by fire,out of the money received by him, the mortgaged property or any part thereofbeing of an insurable nature. (8) Subject to the provisions ofthis Act as to the application of insurance money, the receiver shall apply allmoney received by him as follows, namely. - (i) in discharge of all rents,taxes, land revenue., rates and outgoings whatever affecting the mortgagedproperty; (ii) in keeping down all annualsums or other payments, and the interest on all principal.....

Divorce Act, 1869 Chapter 5

Title: Judicial Separation

State: Central

Year: 1869

.....of contract, and wrongs and injuries, and suing and being sued in any civil proceedings; and her husband shall not be liable in respect of any contact, act or costs entered into, done, omitted or incurred by her during the separation: Provided that where, upon any such judicial separation, alimony has been decreed or ordered to be paid to the wife, and the same is not duly paid by the husband, he shall be liable for necessaries supplied for her use: Provided also that nothing shall prevent the wife from joining, at any time during such separation, in the exercise of any joint power given to herself and her husband. Section 26 - Reversal of Decree of Separation: Decree of separation obtained during absence of husband or wife may be reversed Any husband or wife, upon the application of whose wife or husband, as the case may be, a decree of judicial separation has been pronounced, may, at any lime thereafter, present a petition to the Court by which the decree was pronounced, praying for a reversal of such decree, on the ground that it was obtained in his or her absence, and that there was reasonable excuse for the alleged desertion, where desertion was the ground of such.....