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• Married Women 
• 1 Short title
• PART I Protection of Married Women During Desertion
  • 2 Persons deserting their wives or children may be imprisoned
  • 3 Wife deserted by her husband may apply to magistrate for protection
  • 4 Seizing wife’s property after notice of order
  • 5 Wife during continuance of order to be deemed feme sole
  • 6 Discharge of order
  • 7 Costs
  • 8 Order for protection of earnings, etc., of wife to be deemed valid
  • 9 Order to state the time at which the desertion commenced
  • 10 Indemnity to persons making payments under orders afterwards reversed
  • 11 Provisions respecting property of wife to extend to property vested in her as executrix, etc.
• PART II Property of Married Women
  • 12 Interpretation of Part II
  • 13 Married woman to be capable of acquiring, holding and disposing of property and of contracting as a feme sole
  • 14 Legal proceedings by and against married woman
  • 15 Effect of contracts by married women
  • 16 Costs may be ordered to be paid out of property subject to restraint on anticipation
  • 17 Property of a married woman to be held by her as a feme sole
  • 18 Loans by wife to husband
  • 19 Execution of a general power
  • 20 Will of married woman
  • 21 Transfer of stocks and shares, etc., to a married woman
  • 22 Investments in joint names of a married woman and any person other than her husband
  • 23 Husband need not join in transfer of any stocks and shares, etc.
  • 24 Fraudulent investments of money of husband
  • 25 Life insurance policies
  • 26 Remedies of married women for protection and security of separate property
  • 27 Wife’s ante-nuptial debts and liabilities
  • 28 Husband to be liable for wife’s debts contracted before marriage, to a limited extent
  • 29 Proceedings against husband and wife jointly in respect of such debts or liabilities
  • 30 Liability of wife to criminal proceedings
  • 31 Questions between husband and wife as to property to be decided in a summary way
  • 32 Dispositions of trust estates by married women
  • 33 Married woman as an executrix or trustee
  • 34 Settlements of a married woman’s separate property
• PART III Miscellaneous
  • 35 Married woman to be liable for the maintenance of her husband, her children and grand-children
  • 36 Rights of legal personal representatives of married women