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Last Updated: 1 December 2016
AN ACT TO DECLARE THE LAW RELATING TO THE PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN
[MWP 12] Fraudulent investments with money of a husband12
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If any investment in any such deposit or annuity as aforesaid or in any stocks, funds or in any share, stock, debenture or debenture stock of any corporation, company or public body, municipal, commercial or otherwise, or in any share, debenture, benefit, right or claim whatsoever in, to or upon the funds of any industrial, provident, friendly, benefit, building or loan society shall have been made by a married woman by means of moneys of her husband without his consent, the court may, upon an application under the provisions of section 20, order such investment and the dividends thereof or any part thereof to be transferred and paid respectively to the husband, and nothing in this Act contained shall give validity as against creditors of the husband to any gift by a husband to his wife of any property which after such gift shall continue to be in the order and disposition or reputed ownership of the husband or to any deposit or other investment of moneys of the husband made by or in the name of his wife in fraud of his creditors, but any moneys so deposited or invested may be followed as if this Act had not passed.