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Home Dictionary Name: marryMarried women's property
Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:-1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only. After his death, leaving her surviving, it passed to her absolutely; after her death, leaving him surviving, provided that it was an estate in possession and issue who could in her it had been born during the marriage, it passed to him as 'tenant by the curtesy (q.v.) of England,' during his life, and after his death to her heir-at-law.(2) Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses in action,' became his absolutely if he did some act to appropriate or reduce them into possession during the marriage, or if he survived her. If ...
Reversionary Interests of Married Women in Personalty
Reversionary Interests of Married Women in Personalty. See (English) Married Women's Reversionary Interests Act, 1857 ('Malins's Act'), 20 & 21 Vict. c. 57, enabling married women to dispose of such interests; Conveyancing Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo.5, c. 37), s. 7, and Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 167, abolishing acknowledgments by married women....
Whoever marries
Whoever marries, the expression 'whoever.... marries' in s. 494 of the Penal Code, 1860, must mean 'whoever.... marries validly' or 'whoever.... marries and whose marriage is a valid one', Bhaurao Shankar Lokhande v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1965 SC 1564: (1965) 2 SCR 837....
married filing jointly
married filing jointly A filing status used by a couple that is married at the end of the tax year and uses one tax return. ...
married filing separately
married filing separately The filing status used by a couple that is married at the end of the year and chooses to file separate tax returns. ...
Married
Being in the state of matrimony having a spouse wedded as a married man or woman of one person...
Married woman
Married woman. See HUSBAND AND WIFE....
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
Husband and wife
Husband and wife. the Common Law treated them, for most purposes, as one person, giving, with exceptions comparatively unimportant, the whole of a woman's property to her husband for his absolute use, and a husband could not make a grant to his wife at the Common Law, though he might do so: (1) under the Statute of Uses, by granting an estate to another person for her use; (2) by creating a trust in her favour; (3) by the custom of particular places; (4) by surrendering copyholds to her use; and (5) by will.Equity, however, from very early times, by the doctrines of 'separate use,' 'trusts,' and 'equity to a settlement,' very largely modified the Common Law in favour of the wife; and the statute law has, by s. 1 of the Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors Act), 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 30), almost completely abolished the property distinction between an unmarried and a married woman. See MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY.At Common Law, a gift of either realty or personal-ity to a husband a...
Separate estate
Separate estate. The Common Law did not allow a married woman to posses any property independently of her husband, but when property was settled to her separate use and benefit, equity treated her, in respect to that property, as a feme sole, or unmarried woman. A wife's separate property might be acquired by a pre-nuptial contract with her husband, or by gift, either from the husband, or from any other person. the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882 (see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY), almost abolished the Common Law distinction between married and unmarried women in respect of property, and the amending (English) Act of 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 63) provided (s. 1) that:-1. Every contract hereafter entered into by a married woman otherwise than as agent,(a) shall be deemed to be a contract entered into by her with respect to and to bind her separate property whether she is or is not in fact possessed of or entitled to any separate property at the time when she enters into such contr...
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