Chapman v. Hughes
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Grenada County. Hon. A. T. Roane, Judge. Robert H. Edmunds, a young man of large estate, was born on .July 12, 1838, and became of age July 12, 1859. He was married on the 29th of October, 1857, before he obtained his majority, .and his property was turned over to him by his guardian.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Grenada County. Hon. A. T. Roane, Judge. Robert H. Edmunds, a young man of large estate, was born on .July 12, 1838, and became of age July 12, 1859. He was married on the 29th of October, 1857, before he obtained his majority, .and his property was turned over to him by his guardian. During ¡his minority he had contracted numerous debts, and on the 19th of March, 1860, without having theretofore done anything either in affirmance or disaffirmance of these debts, he executed and placed on record a deed whereby he conveyed to his daughter, then two months of…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
Before the passage of the act of November-26, 1821, the power of a guardian over the estate of a male ward continued until such ward arrived at the age of majority notwithstanding his marriage. Schouler on Domestic Relations 425; Reeves on Domestic Relations 471; 2 Kent 226. But by the act of 1821 it was.provided that “the powers and duties of every testamentary or other guardian over the person and estate of the ward shall cease and determine when such ward shall either arrive at the age of twenty-one years or be lawfully married, and in either event the guardian shall forthwith render a…
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