AGE PRAYER

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AGE PRAYERmain
Black's Law Dictionary • 1891
A suggestion of non- age, made by an infant party to a real ac- tion, with a prayer that the proceedings may be deferred until his full age. It is now abolished. St. 11 Geo. IV.; 1 Wm. IV. c. 37, § 10; 1 Lil. Reg. 54; 3 Bl. Comm. 300.
AGE PRAYERmain
Burrill's Law Dictionary • 1867
[L. Fr. age prier; L. 6. 33. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 17, § 8. Agenti Lat. ætatis precatio.] In old English ex contractu non potest opponi questio dompractice. A prayer for age; or for the inii; one who sues on a contract cannot allowance of a privilege or indulgence, on be met with a question of ownership. A account of age. * At common law, in rule of insurance law. Santerna, part 4, many real actions by or against an infant, n. 48. Rote de Génes, dec. 5, n. 11. Roccus, and in actions of debt against him, as heir Not. 46. It was, however, to be taken to any deceased ancestor, either party with the qualification-nisi hoc fuisset in might suggest the non-age of the defendfraudem assecuratoris. Id. Emerigon, ant, and pray that the proceedings might Tr. des Ass. ch. 5, § 2. be deferred until his full age, or (in legal phrase) that the infant might have his age, and that the parol might demur, that is, that the pleadings might be stayed. 3 Bl. Com. 300. Termes de la Ley. Finch, Law, 360. This was called the plea of parol demurrer, which has been recently

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