The Infant Settlements Act 1855
WHEREAS great Inconveniences and Disadvantages arise in consequence of Persons who marry during Minority being incapable of making binding Settlements of their Property: For Remedy whereof be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: