The Englishwoman's review (of social and industrial questions) [ed. by J. Boucherett]., Volume 27, Issue 1 - Volume 28, Issue 4Jessie Boucherett 1882 |
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Page 411 - Act shall be entitled to have and to hold and to dispose of in manner aforesaid as her separate property all real and personal property, her title to which, whether vested or contingent, and whether in possession, reversion, or remainder, shall accrue after the commencement of this Act, includingany wages, earnings, money, and property so gained or acquired by her as aforesaid.
Page 506 - A married woman shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be capable of acquiring, holding, and disposing by will or otherwise, of any real or personal property as her separate property, in the same manner as if she were a feme sole, without the intervention of any trustee.
Page 400 - That no polygamist, bigamist, or any person cohabiting with more than one woman, and no woman cohabiting with any of the persons described as aforesaid in this section...
Page 400 - An Act to punish and prevent the practice of polygamy in the Territories of the United States and other places, and disapproving and annulling certain Acts of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Utah...
Page 261 - To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
Page 242 - Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Section '2. Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article.
Page 411 - ... standing in her name, shall be deemed, unless and until the contrary be shown, to be the separate property of such married woman; and the fact that any such deposit...
Page 218 - Vice-Chancellor shall be authorised to grant Certificates to those women who shall have passed all the Examinations required of the Candidates for either Degree in Music, the form of such Certificate to be approved by the Special Board for Music.
Page 241 - Negroes should necessarily be given an unrestricted access to the ballot; but that the right to vote should not be denied or abridged ' on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Page 296 - Parliament, wherever words occur which import the masculine gender, the same shall be held to include females for all purposes connected with and having reference to the right to be registered as voters, and to vote in such election, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.