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contribution by Bodichon
...of English women. In 1854 she had published her Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, which had a useful effect in helping forward the passage of the Married Women’s Property Act. In 1866, cooperating with Emily Davies, she proposed a plan for the extension of university education to women, and the first small experiment, a college at Hitchin,...
development of property laws
...considerably more power to the present holder of settled land than the common law had given him. The Married Women’s Property Acts in both countries (originating in the United States in 1839 and in England in 1857) divided property within the marital unit by assigning it to one or the other spouse. The examples could easily be multiplied.