Legal Term: EMANCIPATION

Definition: An act by which a person, who was once in the power of another, is rendered free. B y the laws of Louisiana, minors may be emancipated. Emancipation is express or implied. 2. Express emancipation. The minor may be emancipated by his father, or, if be has no father, by his mother, under certain restrictions. This emancipation takes place by the declaration, to that effect, of the father or mother, before a notary public, in the presence of two witnesses. The orphan minor may, likewise, be emancipated by the judge, but not before he has arrived at the full age of eighteen years, if the family meeting, called to that effect, be of opinion that he is able to administer his property. The minor may be emancipated against the will of his father and mother, when they ill treat him excessively, refuse him support, or give him corrupt example. 3. The marriage of the minor is an implied emancipation. 4. The minor who is emancipated has the full administration of his estate, and may pass all acts which may be confined to such administration, grant leases, receive his revenues and moneys which may be due him, and give receipts for the same. He cannot bind himself legally, by promise or obligation, for any sum exceeding the amount of one year of his revenue. When he is engaged in trade, he is considered as leaving arrived to the age of majority, for all acts which have any relation to such trade. 5. The emancipation, whatever be the manner in. which it may have been effected, may be revoked, whenever the minor contracts engagements which exceed the limits prescribed by law. 6. By the English law, filial emancipation is recognized, chiefly, in relation to the parochial settlement of paupers. See 3 T. R. 355, 6 T. R. 247, 8 T. R. 479, 2 East, 276, 10 East, 88., 11 Verm. R. 258, 477. See Manumission. See Coop. Justin. 441, 480, 2 Dall. Rep. 57, 58, Civil Code of Louisiana, B. 1, tit. 8, c. 3, Code Civ. B. 1, tit. 10, c. 2, Diet. de Droit, par Ferriere, Diet. de Jurisp. art. Emancipation.

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