CHAPTER
134
INFANTS' RELIEF |
ARRANGEMENT OF
SECTIONS |
SECTION |
|
Contracts with infants, except for necessaries,
made void. |
Action cannot be brought upon any promise or
ratification made after full age. |
CHAPTER 134 |
INFANTS' RELIEF |
An Act
relating to the contracts of infants. | 5 of 1877 |
[Commencement 27th
March, 1887] |
1. This Act may be cited as the Infants' Relief Act. | Short title. |
2. All contracts, whether by specialty or by simple
contract, henceforth entered into by infants for the repayment of money lent,
or 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: | Contracts with infants, except for necessaries, made
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
infancy, or upon any ratification made after full age of any promise or
contract made during infancy, whether there shall or shall not be any new
consideration for such promise or ratification after full age. | Action cannot be brought upon any promise or
ratification made after full age. |