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Iowa Code § 599.1 Period of minority — exception for certain inmates.
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1. The period of minority extends to the age of eighteen years, but all minors attain their majority by marriage. 2. A person who is less than eighteen years old, but who is tried, convicted, and sentenced as an adult and committed to the custody of the director of the department…
Iowa Code § 599.2 Contracts — disaffirmance.
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A minor is bound not only by contracts for necessaries, but also by the minor’s other contracts, unless the minor disaffirms them within a reasonable time after attaining majority, and restores to the other party all money or property received by the minor by virtue of the contra…
Iowa Code § 599.3 Misrepresentations — engaging in business.
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No contract can be thus disaffirmed in cases where, on account of the minor’s own misrepresentations as to the minor’s majority, or from the minor’s having engaged in business as an adult, the other party had good reason to believe the minor capable of contracting. [C51, §1489; R…
Iowa Code § 599.4 Payments.
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Where a contract for the personal services of a minor has been made with the minor alone, and the services are afterwards performed, payment therefor made to the minor, in accordance with the terms of the contract, is a full satisfaction therefor, and the parent or guardian canno…