 | Samuel Comyn - 1824 - 680 Seiten
...action of trespass, for the grant was merely void. It is also laid down as a general rule, (l,) that infancy is a personal privilege, of which no one can take advantage but the infant himself; and therefore, though the contract of the infant be voidable, yet it shall bind the person... | |
 | Peregrine Bingham - 1824 - 422 Seiten
...pleading." Co. Lit. 115. b. AMERICAN CASES. imprudence or the craft of others. The general rule is, that infancy is a personal privilege of which no one can take advantage but the infant himself; and therefore that his contracts though voidable by him shall bind the person of full age.... | |
 | Richard Babington - 1826 - 300 Seiten
...action against an infant be grounded on a contract, the plaintiff shall not convert it into a tort.b But infancy is a personal privilege of which no one can take advantage but the infant himself; and therefore, though the contract of the infant be voidable, yet if entered into with a person... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir Henry Hobart - 1829 - 672 Seiten
...delivered by his own hands, it was but voidable, to be recovered again by an action of account. (1) (1) Infancy is a personal privilege of which no one can take advantage but the infant himself; therefore his contracts, though voidable by him, will bind the other party who is of full... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1834 - 850 Seiten
...4. OF THE LIABILITY OF PERSONS CONTRACTING WITH INFANTS. — It is laid down as a general rule, that infancy is a personal privilege, of which no one can take advantage but the infant himself; and therefore, although the contract of the infant be voidable, that it shall bind the other... | |
 | Joseph Rockwell Swan - 1837 - 614 Seiten
.... INFANTS. 345 affirmed it, or it be otherwise void. Hence, it is laid down as a general rule, that infancy is a personal privilege, of which no one can take advantage but Ihc infant himself, or his executors or administrators^). SEC. VI. HOW INFANTS SHOULD SUE, AND BE SUEI>(6).... | |
 | Archibald John Stephens - 1842 - 998 Seiten
...tort. 1. CONTRACTS WHICH CAN BE ENFORCED BY AN INFANT. CONTRACTS WHICH CAN BE ENFORCED BY AH INFANT. Infancy is a personal privilege, of which no one can take advantage but the infant. The general presumption of law is, that an infant does not know his own rights (1); and although the... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1844 - 732 Seiten
...1. Where voidable, as to the Infant, shall yet bind othen. It is laid down as a general rule, that infancy is a personal privilege, of which no one can take advantage but the infant himself, and that therefore, though the contract of the infant be voidable, that yet it shall bind... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1847 - 988 Seiten
...no mutuality of contract or reciprocity of obligation, for " it is laid down as a general rule that infancy is a personal privilege, of which no one can take advantage but the infant himself, and that therefore, though the contract of the infant be voidable, that yet it shall bind... | |
 | John William Smith - 1847 - 438 Seiten
...injant is not ; tor, to use the words in which the rule is stated in Bacon's Ab., Infancy, I. 4 — " Infancy is a personal privilege of which no one can take advantage but the infant himself ; and, therefore, though the contract of the infant be voidable, yet it shall bind the person... | |
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Infancy and Age," vol. 5, p. 134): "It Is laid down as a general rule that infancy is a personal privilege, of which no one can take advantage but the infant himself, and that therefore, though the contract of the infant be voidable, yet that it shall... 
