A Topic of Moral Theology

Property Rights of Minors

What minors can own and administer: the child's earnings, the parents' rights, and emancipation.

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a child's earnings · children's property · minors and money (ed.)

In the index as Goods · Children · Dominion · Minors · Wife · Administration · Authors · Clerics · Contracts · Dowry · Paraphernalia · Tutors · Age · Alienation · Husband · Impubes · Minor · Profectitious Goods · Superfluous Things · Wards · A person of age · Adventitious · Castrensian goods · Illegitimate children

In the manuals

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Vol. I, Bk. VI, Pt. VII, Div. I, Ch. III, Section II. Property Rights of Minors, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. VII, Sect. I, Ch. I, Art. II, § II, Point I. On the Ownership of Children of the Family, nn. ¶1 & 778 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. I, Q. I, Ch. III, Article II. On The Dominion Of Children Of Families, nn. 26 & 27 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. I, Q. I, Ch. III, Art. II, § 1. On The Dominion Of Children Of Families According To Roman Law, n. 28 — 28. According to Roman law, the following principles were established by theologians: 1. The son has full dominion of castrensian and quasi-castrensian goods. 2. The son of a family indeed has direct dominion of adventit… Read in context →

Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. I, Q. I, Ch. III, Art. II, § 2. On The Dominion Of Children Of Families According To German Law, n. 29 — 29. Preliminary Notes. 1. According to German law, every man is capable of dominion (rechtsfähig) immediately after birth, indeed he is capable of taking an inheritance (erbfähig) immediately after conception. 2. Only mi… Read in context →

Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. I, Q. I, Ch. III, Art. II, § 3. On The Dominion Of Children Of Families According To French Law, n. 30 — 30. Preliminary Notes. 1. According to French law, each person is capable of dominion and already from conception is capable of taking an inheritance. 2. Children are minor-aged up to the completed 21st year of their age… Read in context →

Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. I, Q. I, Ch. III, Art. II, § 4. On The Dominion Of Children Of Families According To English Law, n. 31 — 31. 1. A minor is emancipated when he reaches the 21st year, or when he enters marriage, or when he leaves the paternal house and by reason of occupation ceases to be subject to the father, as if the minor becomes a sold… Read in context →

Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. I, Q. I, Ch. III, Art. II, § 5. On The Dominion Of Children Of Families According To The Law Of North America, n. 32 — 32. 1. In North America a uniform law concerning the rights of parents does not exist. Nevertheless, the following things are rather commonly established. 2. Parents indeed are not held to pay debts contracted by childre… Read in context →

Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. I, Q. I, Ch. III, Art. II, § 6. On The Dominion Of Children Of Families According To Austrian Law, n. 33 — 33. 1. Austrian law, just as it grants greater liberties to wives, so also grants them to children of families. 2. The father has administration of the goods which minor-aged children acquire. If, however, a minor-aged s… Read in context →

Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. I, Q. I, Ch. III, Art. II, § 7. On The Dominion Of Children Of Families According To Spanish And Italian Law, n. 34 — 34. These laws agree sufficiently and establish that the usufruct and administration of all goods which pertain to minor-aged persons belong to the parents, unless the contrary has been expressly established. But when ch… Read in context →

Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. I, Q. I, Ch. III, Art. II, § 8. On The Dominion Of Children Of Families According To Swiss Law, n. 35 — 35. Preliminary Notes. 1. The old law of the diverse Swiss districts does not differ much from the French law explained above. But the new law introduced sufficiently great changes. 2. Capacity for dominion arises from t… Read in context →

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, First Part: On Justice in …, Ch. II, Question Four: On the Subj…, Article I: On the Dominion of Children Under Parental Power, nn. 175, 176, 177, 178 & 179 (40 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Vol. I, Tr. VIII, Pt. I, Ch. II, Art. I, § II. On the Subject of Dominion, nn. 354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 359, 359, Q. 2, 359, Q. 3, 360, 361, 362, 362, Q. 2, 363, 364 & 364, Q. 2 (15 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Tr. IX, Pt. I, Ch. II, Art. II, § I. On Minors, nn. 481, 482 & 483 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae

Vol. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Tr. VII, Diss. I, Ch. II, Art. II, § 2. On the Subject of Ownership in Particular, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶858, ¶859, ¶860, ¶861, ¶862, ¶4, ¶863, ¶864, ¶865, ¶866, ¶867, ¶868, ¶869 & ¶870 (17 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium

Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, FIRST PART: ON THE NATURE …, Ch. II, Art. I, § II. On the subject of dominion, nn. ¶1, ¶601, ¶602, ¶603 & ¶604 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Who May Own Property — McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)