law: Married Women's Property Act, 1874
  4. Married women's earnings to be their
  
  separate property
  The wages and earnings of any married woman
  
  acquired or gained by her after the passing of this Act, in any employment,
  
  occupation or trade carried on by her and not by her husband,
  and also any money or
  
  other property so acquired by her through the exercise of any literary,
  
  artistic or scientific skill,
  and all savings from and
  
  investments of such wages, earnings and property, shall be deemed to be her
  
  separate property, and her receipts alone shall be good discharges for such
  
  wages, earnings and property.