This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by Samuel Williston. Also available from Amazon: Treatise on the Law of Contracts.
Parties of limited capacity to contract .......................... | 222 |
Early law as to the validity of an infant's contract................... | 223 |
Who is an inflant............... | 224 |
Emancipation of an infant ............. | 226 |
Infants contracts are now held vodable and not void............... | 228 |
Contracts of an infant which have been held void..................... | 227 |
Transactions which cannot be avoided by an infant..................... | 228 |
An infant's contract of partnership........................ | 228 |
Statutory changes in the common-law liability of infants................ | 230 |
Voidable means valid until avoided....................... | 231 |
Infant's privilege is personal................................ | 232 |
Whether the privilege may be exercised against a subsequent purchaser in good faith..................... | 233 |
How disaffirmance may be made............. | 234 |
When the privilege may be exercised............ | 235 |
The whole transaction must be disaffirmed.............. | 236 |
Other consequences of disaffirmance....................... | 237 |
Restoration of consideration.................. | 238 |
Ratification............................. | 239 |
Liability for necessaries................. | 240 |
What are necessaries......................... | 241 |
What are not necessiares..................... | 242 |
Money advanced for the purchase of necessaries............. | 243 |
Previous supply ........................... | 244 |
Falsc representations of age.............. | 245 |
Other false representations................... | 246 |
Infant's agency to bind parent................. | 247 |
Actions by and against infants................... | 248 |
 
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