Case ID: njl_1/html/0268-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE STATE v. SHREVE.
    A parent’s authority to dispose of the services of his child ceases when the child arrives at the age of twenty-one.
    
      Habeas corpus to bring up the body of negro James.
    It appeared that the mother of the negro had bound or sold the boy until he should be twenty-seven years of age, and that the negro was more than twenty-one years old.
   Per Curiam.

The parental authority to dispose of a child’s services ceases when the latter arrives at the age of twenty-one ; and in this case, the negro, being above that age, is entitled to his freedom.

Negro discharged.