article_snippet.sent: The judgment, made at the high court, was based on the woman's claim to a right to marital property under the 1882 Married Women’s Property Act.
article_snippet.sent: the family children had also gone to nursery here during the holidays and the woman had lived here for at least one year when the same case was brought.
article_snippet.sent: The Married Women's Property Act 1882 was an act that significantly altered English law regarding the property rights of married women.
article_snippet.sent: Among the laws The Married Women's Property Act 1882 introduced, The Married Women's Property Act 1882 allowed married women to own and control property in married women own right.
article_snippet.sent: It came following an 1836 Caroline Norton court case which highlighted the injustice of English property laws, and generated enough support that eventually resulted in the Married Women’s Property Act.
article_snippet.sent: Many of the elements have since been superseded by subsequent family law statutes.