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§ 202.: Testamentary guardians.— - Christopher G. Tiedeman, A Treatise on State and Federal Control of Persons and Property in the United States considered from both a Civil and Criminal Standpoint, vol. 2 [1900]

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A Treatise on State and Federal Control of Persons and Property in the United States considered from both a Civil and Criminal Standpoint (St. Louis: The F.H. Thomas Law Book Co., 1900). Vol. 2.

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§ 202.

Testamentary guardians.—

They are those who are appointed by testament by the parent of the minor child. It is permitted by the law of England and of the United States for the father to appoint by testament a guardian by will, and it might very well be urged that, if the parent has a natural right to the care and control of his minor child, he would have a right to determine who shall succeed him in the enjoyment of this right. The one position is no more unreasonable than the other. But the argument in favor of the right to appoint testamentary guardians is historically weakened by the fact that it did not exist at common law, the privilege being granted for the first time by statute (12 Charles II.). “It is clear by the common law a man could not, by any testamentary disposition, affect either his land or the guardianship of his children.”1 It is our own opinion that all guardianships are trusts or privileges, and do not confer upon the guardians any absolute rights; and such has been the conclusion of the courts, in the few cases in which the question has been raised.2

CHAPTER XIV.

POLICE REGULATION OF THE RELATION OF MASTER AND SERVANT.

SECTION203.Terms “master and servant” defined.
204.Relation purely voluntary.
205.Apprentices.
206.State regulation of private employments.
207.State regulation of public employments.

[1]Lord Alvanley in Ex parte Chester, 7 Ves. 370. But see Coke Lit. 87b, in which there are statements, calculated to throw doubt upon the correctness of this position, at least so far as the guardianship of the ward’s person is concerned.

[2]Beaufort v. Berty, 1 P. Wms. 703; Gilbert v. Schwenck, 14 M. & W. 488.