By Birth Or Consent
Subtitle: Children, Law, And The Anglo-american Revolution In Authority
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780807856116
Subjects: Legal History; Minors; History; Europe - Great Britain - General; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Legal status, laws, etc.; General; Family Law - Children; England; Capacity and disability; Children
First sentence: After his election to the House of Burgesses for Elizabeth City, Virginia, "Mr." Willis Wilson, eighteen years old, traveled to Jamestown to attend the session of April 1692.