Section 4
Married women’s earnings to be their separate property.
The Married Womens Property Act, 1874
About this Act
An Act to explain and amend the law relating to certain married women, for other purposes.
14. Married womens earnings to be their separate property.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.
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.
Notes
1. Cf. the Married Women's Property Act 1870 (33 and 34 Vict., c. 93), s. 1, now rep. by Married Women's Property Act,
1882 (45 and 46 Vict., c. 75).