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Legislative Enactments MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY Marginal Notes 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Married Women's Property Ordinance. 2. Interpretation. 3. On intermarriage of persons of different races, or nationalities, laws to which husband subject to prevail; Ordinance not otherwise to apply to Kandyans, Muslims, or Tamils under the Tesawalamai, or persons married in community. 4. Repeal of sections 4 to J9 of the Matrimonial Rights and Inheritance Ordinance. 5. Married woman to be capable of holding property and of contracting as if unmarried. 6. Will have married woman 7. Property of a woman married after the Ordinance to be held by her as a fumaroles. 8. Loans by wife to husband. 9. Execution of general power. 10. Property acquired after the Ordinance by a woman married before the Ordinance to be held by her as if unmarried. 11. Sums secured by mortgages executed before commencement of Ordinance in favour of married women. 12. As to deposit in bank, public stocks,&c to which a married woman is entitled. 13. As to deposit in bank, public stocks, & c., to be transferred, & c, to a married 14. Investments in joint names of a married woman and others. 15. As to stock, & c., standing in the joint names of a married woman and others. 16. Fraudulent investments with money of husband. 17. Moneys payable under policy of insurance. 18. Remedies of a married woman for protection and security of separate property. 19. Wife's ante-nuptial debts and liabilities. 20. Limit of husband's liability for his wife's debts or liabilities contracted before marriage. 21. Suits for ante-nuptial liabilities. 22. When wife is liable to criminal proceedings in respect of act done with respect to husband's property. 23. Questions between husband and wife as to property to be decided in a summary way. 24. Married woman as trustee, executrix, or administrator. 25. Saying of existing settlements, and the power to make future settlements. 26. Married woman to be liable for the maintenance of her husband. 27. A married woman with separate property liable for the maintenance of her children. 28. Liability of executor or administrator of married woman, 29. Abrogation of certain laws.