ukpga/Edw7/7/18 — Married Women’s Property Act 1907

Married Women’s Property Act 1907 1907 c.18 An Act to amend the Married Women’s Property Act, 1882. [21st August 1907] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Married woman entitled to prior estate to be protector of settlement alone. 3 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. †Short title; commencement; construction. 4 1 This Act may be cited as the Married Women’s Property Act, 1907. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 This Act shall not extend to Scotland. 4 This Act shall be construed with the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1882 , 1884, and 1893, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1882 to 1907.