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Married Women's Property Act 1935
14Construction of gifts to husband and wife and another person
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### 14 Construction of gifts to husband and wife and another person
> Wherever a devise or bequest of any real or personal property shall be hereafter made to a man and his wife and another person jointly, in equal shares or without any direction as to the proportions in which such property shall be distributed among them, the husband and the wife shall take separate and equal shares in the same manner and to the same extent as if the relation of husband and wife did not exist between them.