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    310 PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN.

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    L.—PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN.

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    we Upward drew s the of six attention ye...

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    310 Property Of Married Women.

    310 PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN .

    L.—Property Of Married Women.

    L . —PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN .

    We Upward Drew S The Of Six Attention Ye...

    Upwards of six years ago , in the readers first number to the of hardshi this Journal ,

    injus we omen drew tice w worked he the ther attention by derive the law of b respecting our them from the others proper or ty the of m frui p arried t of w

    their own , exertions . There y had then for some two , or three years " Law been Amendment a considerable Society amoun had t of drawn agitation an on elabora the subject te report ; the _s

    an influential public meeting had been up held under the Society ' s had auspices been ; numerous ted pe to titions both , bearing houses m of any Parliament thousand si and gnat a bill s , ;

    have wi had thdrawn been effected presen broug most h the t in important faith which of , if a reforms i promise t had , passed from and which the into Government la was w , would only

    to take the upon subject into its consideration , and to introduce a measure sufficed to of ch its eck own independent . That promise effort , like ou many twardl similar to lay ones the ,

    matter to restand nothing has since , been done y to fulfil it . Events known , to everyone have for several years past diverted of all

    kinds public a ttention althoug in a great needed measure as much from internal as ever refo they rms have

    , , _,, apparen The need tly by of common reform consen however t , been never grow tponed s less . by its mere

    pos While tponement the reformers . The pressure wait , their of , injustice ranks are increases being constantl every day y , . _,

    more army thoug powerful h again it may takes than be the silen when field tly it , , , last t recrui is shewed found ted ; t and o its front when muc at h lar length ger and the

    . arguments It is not , with presen which t p urp ose e t o recap reader itulate s are the familiar facts , or the to desire

    endeavour to initiate fresh action at this moment . We merel of evidence y to draw in fa attention vour of e to a remarkabl htsas e regards and powerful ty piece for

    men and womenwhich has q recent g ly been , given to proper the world , _. In the month , of December 1861 a Royal Commission was

    of appointed which , the " to law prepare of Eng a land body , was of s to ub , st be used tive of la as w India a basis India , but the , "

    which subjects , once it embraced enacted . , was itself to be the law on The Commissioners wereSir John RomillMaster of the

    , y , Rolls Pleas ; Sir Sir William Edward Eri R e , Chief for , Justice ten of the Chief Court Jud of Common of the ge

    Suprem ; e Court at Calcutta yan , ; the Ei years ght Honourable Robert Education Lowe , then and Vice who -President had had of extensive the Committee erience of as Council a colonial on

    , exp

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/22/