 | Joseph Rockwell Swan - 1837 - 614 pages
...voidable, no one knows. The most reasonable and definite rule that has been laid down is this: When the court can pronounce the contract to be to the infant's prejudice, it is void; but if the effect of the contract upon the_ infant's interest be uncertain, or for the benefit of the... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1839 - 262 pages
...are void, and what merely voidable, has occasioned much discussion. It seems now conceded, that when the court can pronounce the contract to be to the...nature, as to benefit or prejudice, it is voidable at the election of the infant. A ratification when of age, will make him liable on voidable contracts.... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1846 - 270 pages
...void, and what merely •voidable, has occasioned ifluch discussion. It seems now conceded, that when the court can pronounce the contract to be to the...necessaries, it is good ; and when the contract is of aa uncertain nature, as to the benefit or prejudice, it is voidable at the election of the infant.... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1846 - 260 pages
...are void, and what merely voidable, has occasioned much discussion. It seems no* conceded, that when the court can pronounce the contract to be to the infant's prejudice, it is void, and when to his benefc. as fo'r necessaries, it is good ;' an J when the contract is of aa uncertain nature, as to... | |
 | Tapping Reeve - 1846 - 490 pages
...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... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - 1856 - 614 pages
...of being legally ratified are absolutely void." Bing. on Inf., 33. CJ EYRE maintained, " that when the 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 nature as to benefit or prejudice it is voidable... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1880 - 886 pages
...rule, as stated by Judge GREEN in the case of Wheaion v. E>wi, o V«;rg. 41, is as 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 — and when the contract is of an uncertain... | |
 | Benjamin James Lea - 1880 - 820 pages
...the rule, as stated by Judge Green in the case of meaton v. East, 5 Yer., 41, is as 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—and when the contract is of an uncertain... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - 1882 - 936 pages
...80 Eng. Rep., 285. Whether contracts of infants are void or voidable, may be thus 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 — and when the contract is of an uncertain... | |
 | 1883 - 908 pages
...8 60. The first branch of the principal case approving the rule laid down in Keanr v. Boycott that "where the court can pronounce the contract to be...when to his benefit, as for necessaries, it is good," &c., docs not stem to the writer note to feirow v. Wiseman, Swell's to be supported by the weight of... | |
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It seems now conceded, that when the court can pronounce the contract to be to the infant's prejudice, it is void, and when to his benefit, as for necessaries, it is good ; and when the contract is of an uncertain nature, as to benefit or prejudice, it... 
