10/24/11
infant - is a legal term referring to one under the age of majority (21 as
we know it today)
Barbara Karcher
Retired
In a message dated 10/21/2011 2:09:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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I assume that the Law, when using the term "infant" meant persons
under the age of 21. ?????
It's just mind-boggling that law-makers back then actually referred
to anyone under the age of 21 as "Infants". Quiet a difference
between what we know now as "Infants".
Sarge
At 10/20/2011 09:32 AM Thursday, you wrote:
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>See the Library of Virginia's Research Note 26 for a guide to Virginia
>marriage laws that would have been in effect in 1823.
>
>www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/Research_Note_26.pdf
>
>
>"Where either of the parties is an infant: ... if either of the parties
>intending to marry, shall be under the age of twenty-one years, and not
>theretofore married, the consent of the father or guardian of every such
>infant, shall be personally given before the said clerk, or certified
>under the hand and seal of such father or guardian, attested by two
>witnesses ..." [Laws of Virginia, enacted October 1792, in Samuel
>Shepherd, The Statutes at Large of Virginia, 1792-1806 (Richmond: 1835,
>repr. New York: AMS Press, 1970) 1: 132-133]
>
>Donald L. Wilson, Virginiana Librarian,
>Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center
> for Genealogy and Local History (RELIC),
>Prince William Public Library System,
>Bull Run Regional Library,
>8051 Ashton Avenue, Manassas, VA 20110-2892
>703-792-4540 www.pwcgov.org/library/relic
>
>
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>Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:20:06 -0400
>From: Lee Anne Center <[log in to unmask]>
>
>At what age could a girl marry without parental or guardian permission
>in
>1823 in Washington County VA?
>
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