Post Nuptial Settlement - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: post nuptial settlementPost-nuptial settlement
Post-nuptial settlement, a settlement made after marriage; it is generally deemed voluntary unless made pursuant to written articles entered intobefore marriage. See VOLUNTARY CONVEY-ANCES....
Marriage settlement
Marriage settlement, an arrangement made before marriage, and in consideration of it (the highest consideration known to the law), whereby real or personal property is settled for the benefit of the husband and wife and the issue of the marriage. There is an express saving for such a settlement in s. 19 of the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882, and see the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 1), invalidating a settlement made by a female infant unless confirmed after attaining 21, but without prejudice to settlements under the Infants Settlement Act, 1855 (see post, MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY).Although the policy of the land legislation of 1924 was to assimilate the law of real property to that of personalty as far as possible, marriage settlements of land (not being effected by way of trust for sale), and if providing for infant or for a succession of interests in land or charging land (but in this case subject to the (English) Law of Property Amendment...
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