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04/24/2025

Married Women’s Property Act, 1874

Year: 1874

Type: Domestic law

Rights Category: Housing, land & property

Link to external source: https://pakistancode.gov.pk/pdffiles/administrator838fddea2bd84054cde358506b537096.pdf#viewer.action=download
Description

An Act to explain and amend the law relating to certain married women, and for other purposes. Whereas it is expedient to make such provision as hereinafter appears for the enjoyment of wages and earnings by women married before the first day of January, 1866, and for insurances on lives by persons married before or after that day.

Selected provisions
Section 4 - Married women’s earnings to be their separate property.

The wages and earnings of any married woman acquired or gained by her after the passing of this Act, in any employment, occupation or trade carried on by her and not by her husband, and also any money or other property so acquired by her through the exercise of any literary, artistic or scientific skill, and all savings from and investments of such wages, earnings and property, shall be deemed to be her separate property, and her receipts alone shall be good discharges for such wages, earnings and property.

Section 7 - Married woman may take legal proceedings.

A married woman may maintain a suit in her own name for the recovery of property of any description which by force of the said [Succession Act, 1925 (XXXIX of 1925)] or of this Act, is her separate property; and she shall have, in her own name, the same remedies, both civil and criminal, against all persons, for the protection and security of such property, as if she were unmarried, and she shall be liable to such suits, processes and orders in respect of such property as she would be liable to if she were unmarried.