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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 198? Excerpt:...a note before Tn31' negotiated, or negotiated after dishonoured, as then the con-N. p. 129.--sidered may be examined; so a note not negotiable. But Latch, 169. he is not bound by a bill of exchange, as its consideration 7Palnic «. cannot be examined; so one bound by a single bill, as £ 4oa. once its consideration could be inquired into, though not bove/Bartnow; hence now not bound by it. Nor is he bound by an lett r-Ff16insimul compulasset, even for necessaries; for he has not go'Zid' ability to settle an account; and when the law was so set-36. Co. L. tied, its consideration, or the value of the items, could not be 172.--i examined, though errors in it now may be inquired into. Soll-,423'.,. £,.. Cro. Jam. rer Duller, J. ' the only consideration lor the promise, is gos, Bard r. the stating of the account:" but per Lord Mansfield, " an Bard, infant cannot bind himself by stating an account:" and by both, the promise is void. On the whole, now an infant is not bound by an insimul computasset, even for necessaries; not because the items cannot now be inquired into, but be-cause he is not capable of stating and settling an account. And in this case it was held, the bare accounting together and promising to pay, implied a good consideration. § 3. A minor is not bound for monies lent to him, nor his Pre.inChan. parent, unless actually expended in necessaries, in equity S7---l pby himself, and at law by the lender. In equity being ' ' vested in necessaries by the minor, he is viewed as having received necessaries; and not the sum lent, but the value of Ch. 51. the necessaries governs the demand: but at law, the promise Art. 1. must arise, if at all, when the minor borrows the money, not v.-v"' when he lays it out in necessa...