1852 Married Women's Property Act
Source, Acts of the Seventy-Sixth Legislature of the State of New Jersey (Somerville, 1852), 407.
Courtesy,  Special Collections/University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.

This Act, though very limited in its scope, was the first passed by the New Jersey Legislature giving married women rights to their own property.  New Jersey law at the time adhered to the English common law practice of coverture, or the subsuming of a women's rights under those of her husband when she married.