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INFANTS RELIEF ACT 1874

INFANTS RELIEF ACT 1874 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Law as to the Contracts of Infants.
[7th August 1874]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

INFANTS RELIEF ACT 1874 - SECT 1
Contracts by infants, except for necessaries to be void.

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

INFANTS RELIEF ACT 1874 - SECT 2
No action to be brought on ratification of infant's contract.

2. 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.

INFANTS RELIEF ACT 1874 - SECT 3
Short title.

3. This Act may be cited as "The Infants Relief Act, 1874."