CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

Article 4, Section 94. Disability on account of coverture abolished.

The legislature shall never create by law any distinction between the rights of men and women to acquire, own, enjoy, and dispose of property of all kinds, or their power to contract in reference thereto. Married women are hereby fully emancipated from all disability on account of coverture. But this shall not prevent the legislature from regulating contracts between husband and wife; nor shall the legislature be prevented from regulating the sale of homesteads.

SOURCES: 1869 art I § 16.


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