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PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN. 311
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We Upward Drew S The Of Six Attention Ye...
leg of islator the Cour ; Sir t of James Common Shaw Pleas Willes and , one one of the the puisne most learned Judges
and acute lawyers eminen on t the lo bench Indian , ; and Jurist Mr . John Macpherson
of Macleod T l aw- resul maker , an t s bring the j Ang oint to delibera - bear upon tions o their f . task eminen a t profound a body
knowled t fail ge of to , E be of lish interest law and to an extensive intell j igen udicial t person experience ; and
al cer canno th tainly h we their venture princi to pal affirm conclusion that every they s , so will far , not are be note surprising -worthy , oug
to Actin anyone g upon intereste the d suggestion in law reform of . the Secretary branch of State of law for
Indiathe Commissioners are dealing with one proceed at a tim , . e and Their they firs propose t report to has issue this successive session the been Commissio reports presented as they to
Parliament and is now before us . In it ners that say , b y various way of classes preface of , p amongs erson t s of t o t substantiv ther professing things , the civil tha Hindoo t law finding or
mos Mahommedan t lained rel of igion and , a that wan a law - to regulate e the devolution was of comp erty dea , th was most tlrequired by those
t clas o pro t s es p , they ar have on ation , in the f a first law instance of urgen succession , direc y ted and their inheri atten tance tion , rep
general Mahommedans ly p applicable both t o all whi ch s grea ses t oth portions er than of the the Hindoos _pojmlatio and n
that ha devolution ve they laws have of of their moveable , not own judged on propert it this advi y subj should sab ect le . th be at They t ( as go in rules on Eng for to land say the ) , of immoveable
property vestment in different India . from generall That not the in the y tending l rules ook English u for pon to w the h establish i o t p merel os devolution sess y their immoveabl as a families temporary e proper there in ty
habit p the ermanen cla of sses , t making ly to . whom Nor a are the distinction the new Armenian law between is intended s , the the Parsees to succession app , l y , in y the to of
moveable Hindoos and and Mahommedans to immoveable themselves property . , They any m propose ore than , there the - distinction in
fo this sh r al , l respect that be governed the , but general that by law the one of devolution d system India the feudal shall of of property rules mak law . e of no In prim of short every ogeniture , k they ind
and discard consequen , as mig tl ht y be place expecte all a , man's sons and daughters upon , the same footing . They then proceed as follows :
wife not affe " , c It ' throug tin property has g ri h been gh ts during m necessary as between op her era life for tion living us but of in th persons one at , a she c or quire shall . two We b cases y continue marriage _propose to introduce to that possess int a e man provisions rest the same shall his
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Property Of Married Women. 311
PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN . 311
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 311, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/23/
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