LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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It gave extensive tracts of land to the husband, overturning a practice of matrilineal inheritance.
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It gave married women the right to own property they either earned or acquired by inheritance.
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It allowed the aristocracy to own property only if they were married and had male children.
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It allowed women to get a divorce.
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Detailed explanation-1: -1. MWP was a welfare act enacted in 1874 to ensure the absolute ownership of wages, earnings, property, investments, and savings of a married woman. 2. The husband cannot acquire any interest in any such property of the wife after the marriage.
Detailed explanation-2: -The MWP Act thus dictates that a married woman’s separate property cannot be owned/used or claimed by anybody else, not even her husband, parents, in-laws, children or brothers. It is a legal safeguard for a woman’s assets which assures her and her dependents’ financial safety and is avail.
Detailed explanation-3: -[24th February, 1874]. An Act to explain and amend the law relating to certain married women, for other purposes.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Married Women’s Property Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict c 93) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed married women to be the legal owners of the money they earned and to inherit property.