Excerpt from New York Bar Examination Questions and Answers Q.A, an infant, is the owner of a certain piece of land. He authorizes B, an adult, to sell said land. B conveys the same to C.After A became of age, it is claimed that he ratified the conveyance. A sues in ejectment. Can he recover? A. Judgment for A. The question here is, can an infant after arriving at age, ratify the act of his agent performed while he was an infant? This depends upon whether his appointment of an agent is a void or voidable act. If the former, it cannot be ratified; if the latter, it can be. In New York the doctrine is laid down, that the only act an infant is incapable of performing as to contracts is the appointment of an agent or attorney. Whether the doctrine is founded upon solid reasons may be doubted, but there is no doubt that it is law. Fonda v.Van Horn, 15 Wend.631. Q.A appoints B, an infant, as his agent to sell certain goods. B sells the goods to C.A afterwards seeks to disaffirm the sale, and brings action to recover back the goods on the ground that B's act was void, as an infant cannot be an agent. Judgment for whom and why? A. Judgment for C. "It is by no means necessary for a person to be sui juris, or capable of acting in his or her own right, in order to qualify himself or herself to act for others." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.