Section 9: Husband not liable for wife’s antenuptial debts.
The Married Women's Property Act, 1874Central Act · Act 3 of 1874
9. Husband not liable for wifes ante-nuptial debts.A husband married after the thirty-first day of December, 1865 shall not by reason only of such marriage be liable to the debts of hi s wife contracted before marriage, but the wife shall be liable to be sued for, and shall, to the extent of her separate property, be liable to satisfy such debts as if he had continued unmarried:
Provided that nothing contained in this section shall *** invalidate any contract into which a husband may, before the passing of this Act, have entered in consideration of hi s wife's ante-nuptial debts.
Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.
other. . Cf. the Married Woman's Property Act, 1870 (33 and 34 Viet., c. 93), s. 12.
repealed, By Act 12 of 1891. . The words "affect any suit instituted before the passing of this Act, not" rep. By Act 12 of 1891, s. 2 and the First Schedule.
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