Married Women's Acts

Married Women's Acts
Statutes or constitutional provisions, now found in most, if not all, American jurisdictions, enacted for the benefit of married women, abolishing common-law restrictions upon their right to contract, sue and be sued, acquire, hold, and convey property in their own right free from interference by their husbands. 26 Am J1st H & W §20.

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