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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WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Chapter I Section1 - Short title Section2 - Extent and application Section3 - Commencement [Repealed] Chapter II Section4 - Married women's earnings to be their separate property Chapter III Section5 - Married women may effect policy of insurance Section6 -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

.....upon certain Courts jurisdiction matters matrimonial; It is hereby enacted as follows :-I-PRELIMINARY SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, COMMENCEMENT OF ACT This Act may be called the3[***] Divorce Act and shall come into operation on the first day of April, 1869. SECTION 02: EXTENT OF ACT 4 [This Act extends to the whole of India5[except the State of Jammu and Kashmir].] Extent of power to grant relief generally,6[Nothing hereinafter contained shall authorise any Court to grant any relief under this Act except where the petitioner7[or respondent] professes the Christian religion. and to make decrees of dissolution, or to make decrees of dissolution of marriage except where the parties to the marriage are domiciled in India at the time when the petition is presented, or of nullity or to make decrees of nullity of marriage except where the marriage has been solemnized in India and the petitioner is resident in India at the time of presenting the petition, or to grant any relief under this Act, other than a decree of dissolution of marriage or of nullity of marriage, except where the petitioner resides in India at the time of presenting the petition.] SECTION 03: INTERPRETATION.....

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

.....married before 1st January 1866; secondly to declare that a married woman may sue in her own name for any property which by force of the Succession Act, or the proposed Act, is her separate property; thirdly, to relieve the husband of a wife married after the 31st December 1865, from her ante-nuptial debts; and, lastly, to declare that any person entering into a contract with a wife (otherwise than as her husband's agent), shall be entitled to sue her, and, to the extent of her separate property, to recover against her whatever he might have recovered had she been unmarried. Clause 4 (as to a wife's wages and earnings) is equivalent to the Married Women's Property Act (33 and 34 Vic., Chap. 93) section one. Clause 6 is copied from the first paragraph of section ten of that Act. It declares that any married woman may effect a policy of insurance on her own life or on her husband's life, on her own behalf, and that the amount assured shall be her separate property. As the law stands, if a wife effects such a policy (otherwise than out of her separate estate), and dies in her husband's lifetime, the husband, in the capacity of her administrator, becomes the absolute owner of the.....

Presidency-towns Insolvency Act, 1909 Part III

Title: Administration of Property

State: Central

Year: 1909

.....of the act of insolvency on which an order of adjudication is made against him, or (b) if the insolvent is proved to have committed more acts of insolvency than one, the time of the first of the acts of insolvency proved to have been committed by the insolvent within three months next preceding the date of the presentation of the insolvency petition: Provided that no insolvency petition or order of adjudication shall be rendered invalid by reason of any act of insolvency committed anterior to the debt of the petitioning creditor. Section 52 - Description of insolvents property divisible amongst creditors (1) The property of the insolvent divisible amongst his creditors, and in this Act referred to as the property of the insolvent, shall not comprise the following particulars, namely: (a) property held by the insolvent on trust for any other a person; (b) the tools (if any) of his trade and the necessary wearing apparel, bedding, cooking vessel, and furniture of himself, his wife and children, to a value, inclusive of tools and apparel and other necessaries as aforesaid, not exceeding three hundred rupees in the whole. (2) Subject as aforesaid, the property.....

Transfer of Property Act, 1882 Chapter IV

Title: Of Mortgages of Immovable Property and Charges

State: Central

Year: 1882

.....times, at his request and at his own cost, and on payment of the mortgagee's costs and expenses in this behalf, to inspect and make copies or abstracts of, or extracts from, documents of title relating to the mortgaged property which are in the custody or power of the mortgagee.] Section 61 - Right to redeem separately or simultaneously 1 [61. Right to redeem separately or simultaneously A mortgagor who has executed two ormore mortgages in favour of the same mortgagee shall, in the absence of acontract to the contrary, when the principal money of any two or more of themortgages has become due, be entitled to redeem any one such mortgageseparately, or any two or more of such mortgages together.] ________________________ 1. Substituted byAct 20 of 1929, section 24 for the original section. Section 62 - Right of usufructuary mortgagor to recover possession In the case of a usufructuary mortgage, the mortgagor has a right to recover possession of the property 1 [together with the mortgage-deed and all documents relating to the mortgaged property which are in the possession or power of the mortgagee], - (a) where the mortgagee is authorized to pay himself the.....

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.....