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Infants Relief Act 1874 1874 c.62 An Act to amend the Law as to the Contracts of Infants. [7th August 1874]
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Infants Relief Act 1874
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In force since 1991-02-01, as the publisher states.
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1 Contracts by infants, except for necessaries, to be void.
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.
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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.
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This Act may be cited as “The Infants Relief Act 1874.”
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