Married Women's Property Act, 1874
4. Married women's earnings to be their
separate property
The wages and earnings of any married woman
acquired or gained by her after the passing of this Act, in any employment,
occupation or trade carried on by her and not by her husband,
and also any money or
other property so acquired by her through the exercise of any literary,
artistic or scientific skill,
and all savings from and
investments of such wages, earnings and property, shall be deemed to be her
separate property, and her receipts alone shall be good discharges for such
wages, earnings and property.