Deeds in minority when ipso jure null, when requiring a restitutio in integrum.
Glentoris v. Kirkpatrick
Date: 4 March 1543 Case No. No 94.
Alienation of lands made by a minor, sine decreto, cannot be reduced elapso quinquennio post majoren ætatem.
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One John Glentoris annalzied certain lands within his less age to the Laird of Kirkpatrick, sine decreto judicis, wherefore N. Glentoris hæres Joannis called the said Laird to hear that alienation decerned to be reduced and declared null of the law, for the causes foresaid, juxta rub. et lit. C. De prædiis et aliis rebus sine decreto. The Lords, ‘ex deducto coram eos judicio,’ understanding that the said John had not moved, ‘causam nullitatis infra quinquennium post perfectam suam ætatem 21 annorum,’ repelled the actor in this cause, ‘ab hac actione, per L. 3. Cod. Si major factus alienationem, &c. Qui habet quod de nullitate contractum per minorem sine decreto judicis factum, lapso post perfectam ætatem illius quinquennio, non auditur ipse postea agere; videtur ex taciturnitate tanti temporis contractual ratificasse.’
