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competent prime minister/ leader? 
RJ is correct, over to you.
What was the major difference regarding property between British women and Australian women when they married in colonial times.
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In both England and Australia, once a woman became married her property was no longer her own and had to relinquish it to her husband.
In England, the married women's property act was enabled.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_Women's_Property_Act_1882
"The Act altered the common law doctrine of coverture to include the wifes right to own, buy and sell her separate property.[7] Wives' legal identities were also restored, as the courts were forced to recognize a husband and a wife as two separate legal entities, in the same manner as if the wife was a feme sole. Married womens legal rights included the right to sue and be sued. Any damages a wife might pay would be her own responsibility, instead of that of her husband. Married women were then also liable for their own debts, and any outside trade they owned was subject to bankruptcy laws. Further, married women were able to hold stock in their own names."
In australia 1883 The Married Women's Property Act of 1883 was enacted.
http://timeline.awava.org.au/archives/21
The Married Womens Property Act enabled married women to hold property of their own, sue and be sued, enter into contracts, be subject to bankruptcy laws, be liable for the debts contracted before their marriage, and for the maintenance of their children. Victoria passed legislation in 1884, New South Wales in 1879, and the remaining states passed similar legislation between 1890-97.
So, based on the above, the key difference that I can discern is that in Britain they were allowed to own stock in their own names, but not in australia?
In England, the married women's property act was enabled.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_Women's_Property_Act_1882
"The Act altered the common law doctrine of coverture to include the wifes right to own, buy and sell her separate property.[7] Wives' legal identities were also restored, as the courts were forced to recognize a husband and a wife as two separate legal entities, in the same manner as if the wife was a feme sole. Married womens legal rights included the right to sue and be sued. Any damages a wife might pay would be her own responsibility, instead of that of her husband. Married women were then also liable for their own debts, and any outside trade they owned was subject to bankruptcy laws. Further, married women were able to hold stock in their own names."
In australia 1883 The Married Women's Property Act of 1883 was enacted.
http://timeline.awava.org.au/archives/21
The Married Womens Property Act enabled married women to hold property of their own, sue and be sued, enter into contracts, be subject to bankruptcy laws, be liable for the debts contracted before their marriage, and for the maintenance of their children. Victoria passed legislation in 1884, New South Wales in 1879, and the remaining states passed similar legislation between 1890-97.
So, based on the above, the key difference that I can discern is that in Britain they were allowed to own stock in their own names, but not in australia?
Not what I had Sarn.
This has to do with a free woman marrying a prisoner.
Which I guess didn't happen in England.
I badly worded the question.
Whats rights did a free woman married to a convict have that a British woman didn't.
This has to do with a free woman marrying a prisoner.
Which I guess didn't happen in England.
I badly worded the question.
Whats rights did a free woman married to a convict have that a British woman didn't.
She was living in Australia which was a massive bonus for a start and would go onto have children, who would have children who would have children who would all be Australians, play cricket for Australia and belt the snot out of the poms.
Ramjet said:
Still waiting for an answer to the above question.
You were close in your previous answer.
Ownership of property for women married to convicts...
Ownership of property for women married to convicts...
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The right to lock her husband up at night!?
Close enough Sarn.
A convict could not own property or trading Iicences. A free woman married to a convict owned all such property.
Convict men where often assigned as servents to their free wives. If they stayed out late with the boys or left the toilet seat up, the wife could dismiss them from service sending them back to the chain gang.
A convict could not own property or trading Iicences. A free woman married to a convict owned all such property.
Convict men where often assigned as servents to their free wives. If they stayed out late with the boys or left the toilet seat up, the wife could dismiss them from service sending them back to the chain gang.
King Cole was Bripumyarrimin, a member of the Aboriginal cricket team who toured UK in 1868. He died of tuberculosis on the tour, and was buried at Tower Hamlets in London.
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Sarn said:
Sir Henry Cole, invented the Christmas Card, died April 18th, 1882 most likely from an existing heart condition. He was sitting for a portrait by famous painter Whistler, when he fell ill, he died the next day.
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