Married Women's Property (Scotland) Act 1881
1Wife married after date of Act to have separate estate in moveables.
2Rents of heritable property to be separate estate in wife.
3How far Act to apply to marriages contracted before its passing.
4In case of marriages contracted before Act parties may come under its provisions by deed.
5Husband's consent dispensed with in certain cases.
6Eight given to husband in wife's moveable succession.
7Children of women dying domiciled in Scotland to have right of legitim, &c.
8Exempting contracts and certain legal rights from operation of Act.
9Short title.
SCHEDULEForm or Notice prescribed by Section 4

Married Women's Property (Scotland) Act 1881

1881 Chapter 21

An Act for the Amendment of the Law regarding Property of Married Women in Scotland.

WHEREAS an Act was passed in the fortieth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, entitled the [40 & 41 Vict. c. 29.] Married Women's Property (Scotland) Act, and it is just and expedient to protect, to the further extent herein-after provided" for, the property of married women in Scotland:

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: