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Nov 30, 2017 · The New York effort to reform women's property laws began in 1836 when Ernestine Rose and Paulina Wright Davis began to gather signatures on petitions. In 1837, Thomas Herttell, a New York city judge, attempted to pass a bill in the New York Assembly to give married women more property rights.
- Jone Johnson Lewis
Married Women's Property Law: Reception of the Early Married Women's Property Acts by Courts and Legislatures by RICHARD H. CHUSED* The reform of married women's property has been proceeding for more than a century.' Beginning around 1835, states began to alter the common law rules granting husbands management and con-
- Richard H. Chused
- 1985
Chapter 200 of the Laws of New York, 1848. An act for the more effectual protection of the property of married women. This law allowed for women to own and manage real property separate from their husbands.
AN ACT for the effectual protection of the property of married women. Passed April 7, 1848. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: Sec. 1. The real and personal property of any female who may hereafter marry, and which she shall own at the time of marriage, and the rents issues and profits ...
Text of the nation’s first law granting married women the right to own property separate from their husbands.
One of the first signs of this trend was a law enacted by Connecticut in 1809, which allowed women to write wills. The first broader married women’s property act was passed by Mississippi in 1839, while the national model became New York’s law of 1848 (see below).
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An act for the more effectual protection of the property of married women. This law allowed for women to own and manage real property separate from their husbands.€ (2 pages)
