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To: PreciousLiberty

“I’m quite sure women could own property LOL!

As to women voting, I’m a bit conflicted on that one... ;-)”

In most cases you would be wrong.

“Massachusetts was one of the first jurisdictions that passed law in 1787 allowing married women to own property under certain circumstances. Single women could inherit land. Once a single woman married, the land would come under the control of her husband.

Women were not given substantial property rights in all states until around 1900.”

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_did_women_get_the_right_to_own_property_in_the_US


494 posted on 08/05/2013 5:18:07 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Beagle8U

Women property rights were a state by state issue, but by 1880 a women right to own property was pretty much established. Again it really is a state by state issue.


496 posted on 08/05/2013 7:33:08 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been offically denied)
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