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  "id": 8682574,
  "name": "CHARLES DEWEY, Cashier v. STEPHEN F. BURBANK",
  "name_abbreviation": "Dewey v. Burbank",
  "decision_date": "1877-06",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "259",
  "last_page": "260",
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    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "77 N.C. 259"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T20:46:21.915598+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "CHARLES DEWEY, Cashier v. STEPHEN F. BURBANK."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "PeaesoN, C. J.\nA minor who makes a contract has his election after arriving at the age of twenty-one years, either to avoid or to confirm the contract.\nThe fact that the purchaser of land continues to live on it and cultivate it after he arrives at age, together with the fact that he pays a part of the purchase money, amounts to an election to confirm the contract.\nNo error.\nPee, Cuexam. Judgment affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "PeaesoN, C. J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Mr. D. M. Carter, for plaintiff.",
      "Messrs. Geo. H. Brown, Jr., and Jno. A. Moore, for defendants."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "CHARLES DEWEY, Cashier v. STEPHEN F. BURBANK.\nPurchase by Minor \u2014 Election to Confirm.\nWhere a minor purchased land and after he came of age continued to live on it and paid a portion of the purchase money ; Held, to he an elections to confirm the contract of purchase.\nCivil ActioN, tried at Spring Term, 1877, of Beaufort Superior Court, before Eure, J.\nThe plaintiff instituted this action against the defendant to recover the amount due upon certain notes given for th& purchase money of a tract of land in Beaufort County, and to obtain a decree of foreclosure of a mortgage deed executed by tbe defendant to secure the payment of said notes. The defendant; in his answer, alleged that at the time of the execution of the notes he was under the age of twenty-one jears. The plaintiff, in his reply, insisted that the defend..ant had ratified.the contract of purchase by taking posses\u2022sion of, and residing and farming on tbe land conveyed in \"the mortgage ; and that he further ratified the contract by paying a part of said indebtedness after he arrived at the .age of twenty-one years. It was admitted that the defendant was in possession of the land, and that he made the payments as alleged. His Honor gave judgment for the plaintiff and the defendant appealed.\nMr. D. M. Carter, for plaintiff.\nMessrs. Geo. H. Brown, Jr., and Jno. A. Moore, for defendants."
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  "file_name": "0259-01",
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