An action shall not be maintained whereby to charge any person upon any promise made after full age to pay any debt contracted during infancy, or upon any ratification after full age of any promise or contract made during infancy, unless such promise or ratification shall be made by some writing, signed by the person to be charged therewith.
Miss. Code Ann. § 15-3-11
Actions on contracts made during infancy
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 681 So. 2d 82 - Morgan v. State (1996)
Most recently applied in Adoption of JMM v. New Beginnings of Tupelo, Inc. (June 2001)
Codes, 1857, ch. 44, art. 8; 1871, § 2898; 1880, § 1298; 1892, § 4232; 1906, § 4782; Hemingway’s 1917, § 3126; 1930, § 3350; 1942, § 271.
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