Since 1890 they must choose from among their near male relatives. Women of the novility, possessing proper property qualifications, may vote by proxy in the assemblies of the nobility. By the law of 1856 all women possessed of the required property qualifications vote by proxy, but are ineligible. The law of 1856 grants the same suffrage as in Prussia. By the law of 1873 women vote on the same terms as do men, a property qualification.
Married women vote by their husbands as a proxy, and single women vote directly.
They are ineligible. By law of 1850 unmarried women and widows may vote by proxy, but are ineligible. By law of 1862, unmarried women and widows, with property, vote by proxy, but are ineligible. The property qualification of a widow or woman legally separated from her husband may be transferred to a son, grandson or great-grandson appointed by her, by the law of 1882. In the Prussian towns, where women are excluded from the suffrage, their taxes and generally all their property qualifications, which carry with them a vote, are accounted to the husband, so as to give him a right to take part in the appointment of electors who are to choose the municipal council.