Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MARRIED WOMENS' PROPERTY ACT 1892

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Preamble
           Long Title

   1.      Married woman to be capable of holding property and of contracting as a feme sole  
   1A.     Disposition of trust estates by married women  
   2.      Property of a woman married after the Act to be held by her as a feme sole  
   4.      Execution of general power  
   5.      Property acquired after the Act by a woman married before the Act to be held by her as feme sole  
   6.      As to stock, etc., to which a married woman is entitled  
   7.      As to stock, etc., to be transferred etc., to a married woman  
   8.      Investment in joint names of married women and others  
   9.      As to stock, etc., standing in the joint names of a married woman and others  
   10.     Fraudulent investments with money of husband  
   11.     Moneys payable under policy of assurance not to form part of the estate of the insured  
   12.     Remedies of married women for protection and security of separate property  
   13.     Wife’s antenuptial debts and liabilities  
   14.     Husband to be liable for his wife’s debts contracted before marriage to a certain extent  
   15.     Suits for antenuptial liabilities  
   17.     Questions between husband and wife as to property to be decided in a summary way  
   18.     Married woman as an executrix or trustee  
   19.     Saving of existing settlements, and the power to make future settlements  
   20.     Married woman to be liable for the maintenance of her children  
   21.     Legal representative of married woman  
   22.     Interpretation of terms  
   23.     Short title  
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