Minor's privileges. - Oath. - Process at a minor's instance to sell land for payment of his debt. - Privilegiatus contra privilegiatum. - How far liable for goods and money furnished to him. - And for money borrowed by his tutor. - May chuse the place of his residence. - Entitled to examine the state of his affairs. - Can a minor pupil contract marriage? - Can a minor be a tutor? - An arbiter? - or a Commissioner of Supply?
Lady Montgrenand v. The Laird of Blair
Date: 3 February 1624 Case No. No 23.
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The Lady Montgrenand pursued the Laird of Blair as tutor to her son, for the charges of his entertainment for certain years. He excepted from the 1616 to the 1621, because at that time the minor’s grandmother being alive and liferentrix, of the whole fee, there was nothing at that time whereupon he might have been entertained; and so the mother having kept him, it should imputed to her natural love, and she should have no recompense for it. Replied, That he having now come to his own, she had just action for all the years before; which was sustained, the Chancellor's vote prevailing.
