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Subject:
Guardian
From:
Charlie Weaver <[log in to unmask]>
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Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history." <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:51:15 -0400
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The term "infant" is a very old legal term from English
common law. It applied to children under the age of
"emancipation", or adulthood. States usually set
that as 16, some 18. In NC, an infant could declare
a guardian, rather than have a court do so, after age
14 or 15 [as with one of my g+grandfathers]. Still appears
  in some state documents.
Charlie

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