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The Married Women's Property Act, 1874 is an Indian law that aims to explain and amend the law relating to certain married women, for other purposes. The Act extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
Key features of the Act include:
- Married women's earnings are their separate property.
- Married women can effect policies of insurance on their own behalf and independently of their husbands.
- A married woman may take legal proceedings in her own name for the recovery of her separate property.
- A husband is not liable for his wife's antenuptial debts.
The Act also provides that a husband is liable for his wife's breach of trust or devastation, unless he acts or intermeddles in the trust or administration.
This Act was passed to improve the legal status and rights of married women in India.
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