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Wardship of infants
Wardship of infants. The wardship of infants and the care of infants' estates is assigned to the Chancery Division of the
Wardship in copyholds
Wardship in copyholds, the lord is guardian of his infant tenant by special custom.
Wages
be paid to a servant, or any other person hired to do work or business for him. An infant can recover wages up to 100l. in the country Court, by s. 77 of the (English) County Courts
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Talfourd's Act
54, repealed and replaced by 35 & 36 Vict. c. 12, which extends the age to sixteen. See INFANT.
Ratification
QUIT. Omnis ratihabitio retrotrahitur et mandato 'quiparatur (Co. Litt. 207 a). As to the ratification of contracts by infants, see the Infants Relief Act, 1874, and INFANT. Ratification is the noun of the verb 'ratify'. It means
Succurritur minori: facilis est lapsus juventutis
facilis est lapsus juventutis. Jenk. Cent. 47, (A minor is assisted: a mistake of youth is easy.) See INFANT
Statutory owner
the settled land in the name of the tenant for life. Where land has been devised to an infant, the personal representatives, in other cases, the trustees of the settlement, may be statutory owners: ss. 23 and
Springing use
instance. In conveyances before 1926, upon a grant by X. To B. to the use of A. (an infant) in fee attaining twenty-one years of age, the use results to the settlor until, if ever, the period
Settled land
limitation over, (c) for a base or determinable fee, or corresponding interest in leasehold land, (d) being an infant, for a legal estate, or [sub-s. (iii.)] limited in trust for any person for a legal estate contingently
Sale of Goods Act, 1893
the Act are:- I. Formation of the Contact, in which it is provided, amongst other things, that an infant or person by mental incapacity or drunkenness incompetent to contract must pay a reasonable price for 'necessaries' sold
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