The legal status of women on marriage and divorce under the civil law / Nor Azni Abas

History has shown that woman obtains no rights on marriage.She has no legal rights and in fact she was once considered as a chattel of her husband. A wife could not even own a property of her own, everything that belongs to her, on marriage passes to her husband. Formerly a husband was entitled to c...

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Main Author: Abas, Nor Azni
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Law 1985
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spelling uitm-278732020-01-30T03:42:52Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/27873/ The legal status of women on marriage and divorce under the civil law / Nor Azni Abas Abas, Nor Azni K Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence KBP Islamic law. Sharī'ah. Fiqh History has shown that woman obtains no rights on marriage.She has no legal rights and in fact she was once considered as a chattel of her husband. A wife could not even own a property of her own, everything that belongs to her, on marriage passes to her husband. Formerly a husband was entitled to compel his wife to carry out her duty to live with him. This duty could be carried out by force if required and the wife could be sent to prison for failing to obey a court order that she should return. Nowdays this does not apply, rot if a wife leaves her husband she runs the risk of losing her right to financial support. She cannot, however, be forced to return to him. In the case of R V JackSon Mrs. Jackson was dragged from her carriage by Mr. Jacksou and an accomplice and imprisoned in her husbands house. A relative sucessfully applied for the writ of habeas corpus to release her and so finally Faculty of Law 1985 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/27873/1/PPd_NOR%20AZNI%20ABAS%20LW%2085_5.pdf Abas, Nor Azni (1985) The legal status of women on marriage and divorce under the civil law / Nor Azni Abas. [Student Project] (Unpublished)
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KBP Islamic law. Sharī'ah. Fiqh
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KBP Islamic law. Sharī'ah. Fiqh
Abas, Nor Azni
The legal status of women on marriage and divorce under the civil law / Nor Azni Abas
description History has shown that woman obtains no rights on marriage.She has no legal rights and in fact she was once considered as a chattel of her husband. A wife could not even own a property of her own, everything that belongs to her, on marriage passes to her husband. Formerly a husband was entitled to compel his wife to carry out her duty to live with him. This duty could be carried out by force if required and the wife could be sent to prison for failing to obey a court order that she should return. Nowdays this does not apply, rot if a wife leaves her husband she runs the risk of losing her right to financial support. She cannot, however, be forced to return to him. In the case of R V JackSon Mrs. Jackson was dragged from her carriage by Mr. Jacksou and an accomplice and imprisoned in her husbands house. A relative sucessfully applied for the writ of habeas corpus to release her and so finally
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title The legal status of women on marriage and divorce under the civil law / Nor Azni Abas
title_short The legal status of women on marriage and divorce under the civil law / Nor Azni Abas
title_full The legal status of women on marriage and divorce under the civil law / Nor Azni Abas
title_fullStr The legal status of women on marriage and divorce under the civil law / Nor Azni Abas
title_full_unstemmed The legal status of women on marriage and divorce under the civil law / Nor Azni Abas
title_sort legal status of women on marriage and divorce under the civil law / nor azni abas
publisher Faculty of Law
publishDate 1985
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/27873/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/27873/1/PPd_NOR%20AZNI%20ABAS%20LW%2085_5.pdf
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