[344] 20 and 21 Vict., c. 85, sec. 22: Statutes at Large, XCVII, 536; cf. also Harrison, op. cit., 117.
[345] Application may be made to a police or petty sessional court and to the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes or its successor, the Probate and Divorce Division. Cf. 20 and 21 Vict., c. 85, sec. 21: Statutes at Large, XCVII, 535, 536; also Geary, op. cit., 360 ff., 425 ff.; Harrison, op. cit., 176, 177; Glasson, Le mariage civil et le divorce, 323: Ernst, Marriage and Divorce, 53.
[346] 20 and 21 Vict., c. 85, sec. 21: Statutes at Large, XCVII, 536.
[347] For a good summary of the old law as to property rights of married women see Glasson, Hist. du droit, II, 284; IV, 157-59; V, 103 ff.; VI, 162; Geary, op. cit., 184 ff.; and especially Swinderen, "Ueber das Güterrecht der Ehefrau in England," ZVR., V, 275 ff.
[348] Geary, op. cit., 363, 364.
[349] On these and other statutes giving the married woman control of her property see Swinderen, op. cit., 278 ff.; Glasson, op. cit., VI, 193 ff.; and Montmorency's valuable article, "The Changing Status of a Married Woman," Law Quart. Review, XIII, 192 ff.
[350] 49 and 50 Vict., c. 52. On the "maintenance order" see Geary, op. cit., 363, 368-70; Harrison, op. cit., 178, 179.
[351] It is to be enforced as under an order of affiliation; but that is by distress, or, in default of distress, by imprisonment: Geary, op. cit., 366, 369, 415.
[352] Ibid., 370.
[353] 41 Vict., c. 19. On the separation order see Geary, op. cit., 364 ff., 424, 425; Harrison, op. cit., 177, 178.