New promise or acknowledgement of debt incurred during infancy

1. Law
2. District of Columbia Code
3. Commercial Instruments and Transactions. [Enacted title]
4. Statute of Frauds
5. New promise or acknowledgement of debt incurred during infancy

An action may not be maintained to charge a person upon an acknowledgment of, or promise to pay, a debt contracted during infancy, made after full age, except for necessaries, unless the acknowledgement or promise is in writing signed by the party to be charged therewith. This section does not affect ratification by conduct.

(Aug. 30, 1964, 78 Stat. 677, Pub. L. 88-509, § 1.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 28-3505.

1973 Ed., § 28-3505.

Cross References

Age of majority, contracts, see § 28:1-103.

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