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Married Women’s Property Ordinance, 1923 (Chapter 68).

Country/Territory
Sri Lanka
Document type
Regulation
Date
1924
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
An Ordinance to amend and regulate the Law relating to the property of married women.
Subject
Land & soil
Keyword
Gender Land tenure Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Ownership
Geographical area
Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Indian Ocean, South Asian Seas, Southern Asia
Abstract

The Ordinance is the general law on matrimonial property rights. In particular, it establishes administrative and legal proceedings and specifies that women are capable of holding, acquiring and disposing of any movable or immovable property as if she were a femme sole, without the consent or intervention of her husband. This applies to all property belonging to her at the time of marriage and property acquired or devolved to her after marriage. She also has the same remedies and redress by way of criminal proceedings for the protection and security of her separate property (16).

Full text
English
Website
www.commonlii.org