Emancipation

An act by which a person who was once in the power or under the control of another is rendered free. This is of importance mainly in relation to the emancipation of minors from the parental control.

See 3 Term 355; 8 id. 479; Varney v. Young, 11 Vt. 258; Tillotson v. Mc Crillis, id. 477; Haugh, Ketcham & Co. Iron Works v. Duncan, 2 Ind. App. 264, 28 N. E. 334; Trapnell v. Conklyn, 37 W. Va. 242, 16 S. E. 570, 38 Am. St. Rep. 30.

See Cooper, Justin.

441, 480; Cowperthwaite v. Jones, 2 Dall. (U. S.) 57, 1 L. Ed. 287; Ferriere, Diet, de Jurist).

Emancipation; Manumission. An infant husband is entitled to his own wages, so far as necessary for the support of himself and family, even though he married without his father's consent; Com. v. Graham, 157 Mass. 73, 31 N. E. 708, 16 L. R. A. 578, 34 Am. St. Rep. 255. Where children contract for, collect, and use their own earnings, emancipation is to be inferred; Geringer v. Heinlein, 29 Wkly. Law Bui. 339; and so when they become of age, no other facts being shown; Baldwin v. Worcester, 66 Vt. 54, 28 Atl. 633. The desertion of children by their father emancipates them; Thompson v. Ry. Co., 104 Fed. 845, where, in an action by the father as next of kin for the death of the child, it was held that there could be no recovery as by reason of the emancipation the father had no right to the earnings. See also for other authorities note in Wilson v. Mc Millan, 62 Ga. 16, 35 Am. Rep. 117; Rodg. Dom. Rel. § 467. This presumption of emancipation from desertion has been termed "the