169 Infants' Relief

• Author: Ralph Hone
• Pages: #4

CHAPTER 169.

INFANTS' RELIEF.

AN ACT RELATING TO THE CONTRACTS OF INFANTS.

5 of 1877.

[27th March 1887.] 1. This Act may be cited as The Infants' Relief Short title.

Act.

2. All contracts, whether by specialty or by simple contract, henceforth entered into by infants for the repayment of money lent, 6r to be lent, or for goods supplied or to be supplied (other than contracts for necessaries), and all accounts stated with infants shall be absolutely void:

   Provided that this Act shall not invalidate any contract into which an infant may by an existing or future Act or by the rules of common law or equity enter, except such as now by law are voidable.

3. No action shall be brought whereby to charge any person upon any promise made after full age to pay any debt contracted during...