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?
Hay of Hopes v. Hepburn of Monkrig
Date: 25 July 1735 Case No. No 39.
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A Commissioner of Supply, by the nature of his office, is a judge, and also liable as cautioner for the collector; and, therefore, it being objected against a Commissioner of Supply, in a question which of two was legally chosen collector, that he was minor, the objection was sustained. See Appendix.
