Succession – Husband and Wife – Husband’s Right to Succeed to Wife’s Moveable Estate – Married Women’s Property (Scotland) Act 1881 (44 and 45 Vict. c. 21), secs. 3 and 6.
Held ( aff. judgment of First Division) that sec. 6 of the Married Women’s Property (Scotland) Act 1881, which gives to a husband of a woman dying domiciled in Scotland the same share and interest in her moveable estate as is taken by a widow in her husband’s moveable estate, is applicable to all marriages, whether contracted before or after the passing of the Act.
Judges:
Lords Blackburn, Watson, and Fitzgerald
Citations:
[1883] UKHL 48, 21 SLR 48
Links:
Statutes:
Married Women’s Property (Scotland) Act 1881 6
Jurisdiction:
Scotland
Family, Wills and Probate
Updated: 28 June 2022; Ref: scu.636767
