# Married Women’s Property Act 1907, Section 3: Married 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, . . . 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/18/section/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/married-womens-property-act-1907/section-3
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