Lanterna Rally

Author: John Fraser Macqueen

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-10

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9781331111108

Excerpt from The Rights and Liabilities of Husband and Wife With regard to the subject matter of the book - it will be found that during the two decades which have elapsed since the publication of the last edition the nebulous and, at that time, indeterminate effect of the provisions of the Married Women's Property Act, 1882, have to some considerable extent been crystallized and settled by judicial decisions. Consequently at the present day it is noticeable that this Act (as amplified by subsequent Statutes) has not only effected a fundamental change in the status or personal capacity of married women, but has also introduced into the circle of domestic life, as a concomitant of the contract between husband and wife, those sound principles of limited liability in pecuniary matters which, in business corporations, have tended so materially to enhance the trade and aggrandize the wealth of the community in the larger sphere of public life. Marriage at the present day, at least in the eye of the law, must therefore be regarded as - (a) "The voluntary union for life of one man with one woman to the exclusion of all others," and (b) As a collateral agreement for a partnership, in which each of the contracting parties strictly reserves to himself or herself the control over all property not actually dealt with by the settlements made in consideration of the marriage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.