...Spanish law and thus assumed in Article VIII of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It directed that: All property, both real and personal of the wife, owned or claimed by [before] marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, devise, or descent, shall be her separate...

...constitution for California and one of the clauses proposed and accepted for the constitution was:51 All property, both real and personal, of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage, and that acquired afterward by gift, devise, or descent, shall be her separate property,...

...following the standing committee's presentation of Section 13 to the delegation. It read: Section 13. All property, both real and personal, of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, devise, or descent, shall be her separate property,...

...(and nonwhite men) from suffrage, it did grant married women certain property rights by providing that "All property, both real and personal, of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage and that acquired afterwards by gift, devise or descent, shall be her separate property, and...

...titles, claims, and grants. Divorce. SECT. 18. No divorce shall be granted by the Legislature. SECT. 19. All property both real and personal of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, devise, or descent, shall be her separate property;...

...version of the separate property definition became section 1 9 of the statehood constitution. It read, All property both real and personal of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, devise, or descent, shall be her separate property:...