1660
Forms.
**
[Originally No. 5 of 1906.
Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]
*
Short title.
*
Interpreta-tion.
45 & 46 Vict. c. 75, s. 24.
Married woman to
be capable of
holding property and
of contracting as feme sole.
45 & 46 Vict. c. 75, s. 1 (1), (2).
No. 5 of 1906. MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY.
4. The forms contained in the Schedules to the Act may be used in the Colony in the cases to which they respectively have reference with such variations and additions as circum-stances may require.
[s. 5, rep. No. 12 of 1912.]
No. 4 of 1906, repealed by No. 8 of 1912.
No. 5 of 1906.
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the property of
married women.
[15th June, 1906.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Married Women's Property Ordinance, 1906.
2. In this Ordinance,
(a) "Contract" includes the acceptance of any trust, or of the office of executrix or administratrix, and the provisions of this Ordinance as to liabilities of married women shall extend to all liabilities by reason of any breach of trust or devastavit committed by any married woman being a trustee or executrix or administratrix either before or after her marriage, and her husband shall not be subject to such liabilities unless he has acted or intermeddled in the trust or administration.
(b) "Property" includes a chose in action.
3.—(1) A married woman shall in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance be capable of acquiring, holding, and disposing by will or otherwise, of any immovable or movable property as her separate property, in the same manner as if she were a feme sole, without the intervention of any trustee.
(2) A married woman shall be capable of entering into and rendering herself liable in respect of and to the extent of her separate property on any contract, and of suing and being sued, either in contract or in tort, or otherwise, in all
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924. See s. 27, by which this Ordinance is
deemed to have been in force on and from the 1st January, 1883.
1660
Forms.
**
[Originally No. 5 of 1906.
Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]
*
Short title.
*
Interpreta- 'tion.
45 & 46 Vict. c. 75, s. 24.
Married woman to
be capable of
holding property and
of contracting as feme sole.
45 & 46 Vict. c. 75, s. 1 (1), (2).
No. 5 of 1906. MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY.
4. The forms contained in the Schedules to the Act may be used in the Colony in the cases to which they respectively have reference with such variations and additions as circum- stances may require.
[s. 5, rep. No. 12 of 1912.]·
No. 4 of 1906, repealed by No. 8 of 1912.
No. 5 of 1906.
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the property of
married women.
[15th June, 1906.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Married Women's Property Ordinance, 1906.
2. In this Ordinance,
(a) "Contract" includes the acceptance of any trust, or of the office of executrix or administratrix, and the provisions of this Ordinance as to liabilities of married women shall extend to all liabilities by reason of any breach of trust or devastavit committed by any married woman being a trustee or executrix or administratrix either before or after her marriage, and her husband shall not be subject to such liabilities unless he has acted or intermeddled in the trust or administration.
(b) "Property" includes a chose in action.
3.—(1) A married woman shall in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance be capable of acquiring, holding, and disposing by will or otherwise, of any immovable or movable property as her separate property, in the same manner as if she were a feme sole, without the intervention of any trustee.
(2) A married woman shall be capable of entering into and rendering herself liable in respect of and to the extent of her separate property on any contract, and of suing and being sued, either in contract or in tort, or otherwise, in all
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924. See s. 27, by which this Ordinance is
deemed to have been in force on and from the 1st January, 1883.
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