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Infant Settlements Act, 1855 (English) (18 & 19 Vict. c. 43), preserved by the Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 27(3), but so that a legal estate in land is not vested in an infant. By virtue of the Act of 1855 every infant (if a male of twenty, or if a female of seventeen years, s. 4, and see Re Phillips, (1887) 34 Ch D 467), upon or in contemplation of marriage, may, with the sanction of the Chancery Division of the High Court, make a valid settlement or contract for a settlement of property. The Act gets rid entirely of the disability arising from infancy, though not of disability on any other ground, Seaton v. Seaton, (1888) 13 App Cas 61. Consult Seton on Judgments: Dan. Ch. Pr