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   1. Bingham on Infancy, 33.
   2. Whitney v. Dutch, 14 Mass. Rep. 457.
   3. 3 Burr. 1794.
   4. Treatise on Conveyancing, vol. ii. 249.
   5. Law of Infancy, ch. 2.
   6. See his work, p. 34, and also his preface.
   7. Swasey v. Administrator of Vanderheyden, 10 Johns. Rep. 33.
   8. Williamson v. Watts, 1 Campb. Y. P. 552.
   9. Curtin v. Patton, 11 Serg. & Rawle, 305.
   10. Co. Litt. 172. a. recognized as being still the law by Bayley, J. in 3 Maul & Selw. 482.
   11. 1 Fonb. Tr. of Eq. 74.
   12. Conroe v. Birdsall, 1 Johns. Cas. 123.
   13. Jackson v. Carpenter, 11 Johns. Rep. 539. Oliver v. Houdlet, 13 Mass. Rep. 237. Roberts v. Wiggin, 1 N.H. Rep. 73. Wright v. Steele, 2 N. H. Rep. 56.
   14. 2 H. Blacks 57.
   15. 1 Mason's Rep. 82.
   16. Smith v. Bowin, 1 Mod. 25. Holt v. Ward, Str. 937. Warwick v. Bruce; 2 Maul. & Selw. 205. Brown v. Caldwell, 10 Serg. & Rawle, 114.
   17. 8 Co. 42. b. Keane v. Boycott, 2 H. Blacks. 511. Van Bramer v. Cooper, 2 Johns. Rep. 279. Jackson v. Todd, 6 ibid. 257. Oliver v. Houdlet, 13 Mass. Rep. 237. Roberts v. Wiggin, 1 N . H. Rep. 73.
   18. Co. Litt. 380. b.
   19. 8 Taunton, 35.
   20. Evelyn v. Chichester, 3 Burr. 1717. 1 Rol. Abr. tit. Enfants. k. Co. Litt. 51. b. Hubbard v. Cummings, 1 Greenleaf, 11. In Holmes v. Blogg, 8 Taunton, 508, it is remarkable that the distinguished counsel in that case, one of whom is now Lord Chancellor, and the other Ch. J. of the C. B., treat this as an open and debatable point. Sergeant Copely insisted, that the infant's contract was binding on him when he became adult, because there had been no disaffirmance of it; and Sergeant Best contended, that disaffirmance was not necessary, and that infants were not bound by any contract, unless the same was affirmed by them after coming of full age.
   21. 11 Johns. Rep. 539. 14 ibid. 124.
   22. 11 Serg. & Rawle, 305.
   23. Ive v. Chester, Cro. J. 560. Clarke v. Leslie, 5 Esp. N.P. 28. Coates v. Wilson, ibid. 152. Berolles v. Ramsay, 1 Holt's N. P. 77.
   24. Ford v. Fothergill, Peake's N.P. 229.
   25. Co. Litt. 172. a
   26. Bainbridge v. Pickering, 2 Blacks. Rep. 1325. Wailing v. Toll, Johns. Rep. 141.
   27. Turner v. Trisby, Sir. 168.
   28. Makarell v. Bachelor, Cro. Eljz. 583.
   29. Kirton v. Elliott, 2 Bulst. 69. Lord Mansfield, in 2 Eden, 72. Holmes v. Blogg, 8 Taunton, 508.
   30. Conroe v. Birdsall, 1 Johns. Cas. 127.
   31. Badger v. Phinney, 15 Mass. Rep 859.
   32. Stoolfoos v. Jenkins, 12 Serg. & Rawle, 399.
   33. Jennings v. Rundall, 8 Term Rep. 335. Johnson v. Pie, 1 Lev. 163.
   34. Homer v. Thwing, 3 Pickering, 492.
   35. Mills v. Graham, 4 Bos. & Pull. 140.
   36. Bristow v. Eastman, 1 Esp. Rep. 172.
   37. 3 Barn. & Cress. 484.
   38. Harg. n. 83. to lib. 2 Co. Litt. Mr. Hargrave has collected all the contradictory opinions on this point. The civil law gave this power to the infant at the age of seventeen years, and this period has been adopted by statute in Connecticut.
   39. Sess. 4. ch. 30.
   40. Co. Litt. 172. a.
   41. 3 Burr. 1801.
   42. Hunt v. Peake, 5 Cowen, 475.
   43. 1 Eden, 39.
   44. 1 Eden, 60-75.
   45. Treatise on Marriage Settlements, p. 28-41 .
   46. 18 Vesey, 250.
   47. 2 Bro. 545.
   48. Cas. in Ch. 211.
   49. Cited in 4 Bro. 440.
   50. Treatise on Marriage Settlements, p. 42-45.