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Married Women’s Property Act 1907

7 Edw. 7 c. 18 · Enacted 21 August 1907 · Extends to England, Wales and Northern Ireland

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An Act to amend the Married Women’s Property Act, 1882.

[21st August 1907]C1C2

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C1

Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

C2

This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland

Contents

  1. 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  2. 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  3. 3Married woman entitled to prior estate to be protector of settlement alone.
  4. 4†Short title; commencement; construction.

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2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F1

3Married woman entitled to prior estate to be protector of settlement alone.

(1)

Where a married woman would, if single, be the protector of a settlement in respect of a prior estate, . . . F1 then she alone shall, in respect of that estate, be the protector of the settlement.

(2)

This section applies to disentailing assurances and surrenders made after the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and as well before as after the commencement of this Act.

4†Short title; commencement; construction.C1

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Married Women’s Property Act, 1907.

(2)

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(3)

This Act shall not extend to Scotland.

(4)

This Act shall be construed with the Married Women’s Property Acts, M11882 M2, 1884, and M31893, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1882 to 1907.