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 5: Married woman may effect policy of insurance.
    1Any married woman may effect a policy of insurance on her own behalf and independently of her husband; and the same and all benefit, thereof, if expressed on the face of it to be so effected, shall enure as her separate property, and the contract evidenced by such policy shall be as valid as if made with an unmarried woman.
Notes:
1. Cf. the Married Women's Property Act, 1870 (33 and 34 Vict., c. 93), s. 10, para. 1.
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