Married women are fully emancipated from all disability on account of coverture; and the common law as to the disabilities of married women and its effect on the rights of property of the wife, is totally abrogated, and marriage shall not impose any disability or incapacity on a woman as to the ownership, acquisition, or disposition of property of any sort, or as to her capacity to make contracts and do all acts in reference to property which she could lawfully do if she were not married. Every woman not married, or hereafter to be married shall have the same capacity to acquire, hold, manage, control, use, enjoy and dispose of all property, real and personal, in possession or expectancy, and to make any contract in reference to it, and to bind herself personally, and to sue and be sued, with all the rights and liabilities incident thereto, as if she were not married. A married woman shall have a cause of action for loss of consortium through negligent injury of her husband.
Miss. Code Ann. § 93-3-1
Disability of coverture abolished; cause of action for loss of consortium of husband
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson (1994)
Most recently applied in Carter v. Reddix (December 2012)
Codes, 1880, § 1167; 1892, § 2289; 1906, § 2517; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2051; 1930, § 1940; 1942, § 451; Laws, 1968, ch. 304, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved May 27, 1968
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