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?
Harper v. Hamilton
1687.
July.. Case No. No 35.
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In a pursuit at the instance of Harper against Henry Hamilton, for a sum in a bond by John Hamilton the defender's father, as principal, and himself as cautioner, expressly declared to be for shoes and boots to the defender,
Henry alleged minority and lesion, that he had raised reduction ex eo capite; 2do, That the father could not authorise the pupil.
Answered; The goods were in rem versum to the minor, and he was forisfamiliate.
