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· 11/14/1947

Burnand v. Irigoyen

Citations

  • 30 Cal. 2d 861
  • 186 P.2d 417
  • 1947 Cal. LEXIS 210

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “A contract relating to ... personal property not in his immediate possession or control, entered into by a minor under 18 years is void and requires no act of disaffirmance.”
  • “One deals with infants at his peril.... The policy of the law is to discourage adults from contracting with an infant and they cannot eom-plain if as a consequence of violating the rule they are injured by the exercise of the right of disaffirmance vested in the infant.”

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Judges: Shenk, Edmonds

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