Act Number: 3

Act Name: The Married Womens Property Act, 1874

Year: 1874

Enactment Date: 1874-02-24

Long Title: An Act to explain and amend the law relating to certain married women, for other purposes.

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Legislative Department

Section 8: Wifes liability for postnuptial debts.
    If a married woman (whether married before or after the first day of January, 1866) possesses separate property, and if any person enters into a contract with her with reference to such property, or on the faith that her obligation arising out of such contract will be satisfied out of her separate property, such person shall be entitled to sue her, and to the extent of her separate property, to recover against her whatever he might have recovered in such suit had she been unmarried at the date of the contract and continued unmarried at the execution of the decree :
     1 [Provided that nothing herein contained shall--
         (a) entitle such person to recover anything by attachment and sale or otherwise out of any property which has been transferred to a woman or for her benefit on condition that she shall have no power during her marriage to transfer or charge the same or her beneficial interest therein, or
         (b) affect the liability of a husband for debts contracted by his wifes agency expressed or implied.]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 21 of 1929, s. 2, for the proviso.
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