Harrod v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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1. ““There is some diversity in the books, as to the proper time of avoiding the deed of an infant; some cases intimating that it cannot be done till the infant arrives of age; some that the disaffirmance should be before that period, from analogy to the time of avoiding a fine levied or recovery suffered, and others holding the time to be immaterial, so that not disavowing the deed shall not be so long delayed as to work its ratification. Of course, where a former deed is to be invalidated by a subsequent deed to another person, it must be done after full age, for the same want of capacity that makes -the first revocable might annul the second deed. But the act of infancy can be revoked by entering upon the land and taking the profits while an infant; and we find no case that denies his right to invoke the aid of chancery to relieve him from the improvidence and folly of his immature years; nor, considering the relation of courts of chancery to infants, would we expect to find such a case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gillmett v. Tourcott