"CONTRACT is a bargain or agreement enforceable by law. The law of contract occupies so large a space in all civilized systems of law, that only a few of its more leading principles can be stated here. There is a general harmony in the jurisprudence of modern nations on this subject which is not to be found in other departments of law. [...]
"Certain classes of persons are under peculiar disabilities in matters of contract, viz., infants, lunatics, and married women. [...]
"A married woman, being in the eyes of the law merged in her husband, cannot bind herself by contract."
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5. Infants, Lunatics and Married Women
From Vol. 6 of the 9th Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1877):
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