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INFANTS RELIEF ACT 1874 - SECT 1

Contracts by infants, except for necessaries to be void.

1. 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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