Dubois v. Jackson

Citations

• 49 Ill. 49

Syllabus

<p>1. Married women—rights of under the act of 1861. Where parties residing in England were married there, and the wife, at the time of such marriage, was the owner of certain personal property, such marriage operated as an absolute gift of it to the husband, and the subsequent removal by the parties to this State, after the passage of the Act of 1861, worked no change in the title to such property, which by the marriage had vested in the husband.</p> <p>2. The statute was never designed to take from the husband rights which had vested in him prior to its passage, or to take from him such as.had been acquired in another State, subsequent to its passage.</p>