{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/married-womens-property-act-1882/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/married-womens-property-act-1882/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/45-46/75",
  "legislation_title": "Married Women’s Property Act 1882",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/married-womens-property-act-1882",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Questions between husband and wife as to property to be decided in a summary way.",
  "text": "In any question between husband and wife as to the title to or possession of property, either party, . . . , may apply by summons or otherwise in a summary way to the High Court or the family court and the court in a summary way to the High Court or a county court and the court may, on such an application (which may be heard in private), make such order with respect to the property as it thinks fit.\nIn this section “prescribed” means prescribed by rules of court ......",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 (c. 52), Sch. Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 substituted (N.I.) (31.10.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), s. 106(2), Sch. 1 para. 35 (with Sch. 8 para. 1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(k) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 substituted (E.W.) by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c. 42, SIF 49:3), ss. 43, 48(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 3(a); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 3(b); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Proviso repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 (c. 52), Sch. Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 17 extended by Matrimonial Causes (Property and Maintenance) Act 1958 (c. 35), s. 7; applied by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1970 (c. 33), s. 2(2); amended by Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Act 1970 (c. 45), s. 39"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 17 extended with modifications by S.I. 1977/344, rule 106 (as substituted by S.I. 1986/634, rule 21)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/45-46/75/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:40:46.634693+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}