 | Tapping Reeve - 1846 - 490 páginas
...infant, as for necessaries, it is good; when for his prejudice, it ia void ; and when the contract was of an uncertain nature as to benefit or prejudice, it is voidable only at the electiori"of the infant. We have collected a few cases illustrative of the law on this subject in several... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, West Hughes Humphreys - 1847 - 664 páginas
...to trade in spirituous liquors as a free person of color. The State vs. Weaks, 522. INFANT. 1. Where the court can pronounce the contract to be to the...it is voidable only at the election of the infant. McGan vs. Marshall, 121. 2. An infant may disaffirm a voidable contract after he becomes of age by... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - 1856 - 614 páginas
...Court can pronounce the contract to be to the infant's prejudice, it is void, and when to his benefit it is good, and when the contract is of an uncertain...it is voidable only, at the election of the infant when he arrives at maturity." 2 Henry, Blacks. 511; Keane vs. Boycott. These distinctions are regarded... | |
 | Tapping Reeve - 1862 - 684 páginas
...surrounded with difficulties. When it is for his benefit — as for necessaries, it is good ; but when it is of an uncertain nature, as to benefit or prejudice,...it is voidable only, at the election of the infant. McMinn ». Richmonds, 6 Yerger, 9 ; Lessee of Tucker v. Morelaud, 10 Peters, 59. And in Eagle Fire... | |
 | Anson Bingham - 1868 - 720 páginas
...approbation by Judge Story, 1 Mason's Rep. 82, and by Chancellor Kent, 2 Com. 193, which is this, ' that when the court can pronounce the contract to...is voidable only, at the election of the infant.' " fore, only voidable. In accordance with the rule, thus stated, they held that the deed of the plaintiff,... | |
 | 1878 - 560 páginas
...good; when to his prejudice, it is void, and where the contract is of an uncertain nature as to beueflt or prejudice, it is voidable only at the election of the infant. In Harner v. Dipple, 31 Ohio St. 72, it is said that the current of more recent decisions repudiates... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 884 páginas
...benefit of the infant, as for necessaries, it is good; when to his prejudice, it is void; and where the contract is of an uncertain nature as to benefit...it is voidable only at the election of the infant." This rule, modified so as to declare that a contract necessarily prejudicial to the infant is void,... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1880 - 886 páginas
...follows : " When the court can pronounce the contract to be to the infant's prejudice it is void — when to his benefit, as for necessaries, it is good...prejudice, it is voidable only at the election of the infants." This, Judge GREEK says, is the language of Lord Ch. J. EYRE, and was quoted with approbation... | |
 | Benjamin James Lea - 1880 - 820 páginas
...be to the infant's prejudice it is void—when to his benefit, as for necessaries, it is good—and when the contract is of an uncertain nature as to...prejudice, it is voidable only at the election of the infants." This, Judge Green says, is the language of Lord Ch. J. Eyre, and was quoted with approbation... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - 1882 - 936 páginas
...determined : "When the court can pronounce the contract to be to the infant's prejudice, it is void — when to his benefit, as for necessaries, it is good...it is voidable only at the election of the infant : Swaffovd i\ Ferguson, 3 Lea (Tenn.), 302. The contract of an infant is not void, but merely voidable.... | |
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When the court can pronounce the contract to be for the benefit of the infant, as for necessaries, it is good; when to his prejudice, it is void; and where the contract is of an uncertain nature as to benefit or prejudice, it is voidable only at the election... 
