82 Miss. 597 | Miss. | 1903
delivered the opinion of the court.
On the 4th of June, 1890, Mary Ann Ray executed a trust deed conveying to I. M. Kelly real estate and personal property therein described, with full power to take charge of, control., manage, and direct as he might see proper, in the interest of her minor son, Harvel Ray, until he, the said Harvel Ray, shall’ become of age, “when the said property herein conveyed and still remaining in the hands of said trustee, shall be delivered to him, and said trustee is hereby directed to make a deed in fee simple to said lands, to said Harvel Ray, who shall thereafter hold the same absolutely,” with this further provision: “Should said minor die during his minority without a wife living or issue of the body or descendants of the same, the property herein conveyed shall go to his half-brother, B. J. Barrier, or his. children or descendants of the same, should he have any.” The said trustee is given full power to lease or sell said property, and provide for the maintenance and education of said minor, Harvel Ray. The said Harvel Ray was eighteen years of age, as shown by this record, on June 12, 1903. On the 1st day of July, 1903, his civil disabilities of minority were removed by the chancellor in vacation. The following is the language of the order: “The civil disabilities of minority of Harvel Ray
' We find no merit in the contention of appellant that the emancipation of the minor terminates his minority. The terms of the trust is the law of the trust. It was the evident intention of Mrs. Mary Ann Ray that the trustee should remain in full possession and control of the financial affairs of the minor until he arrived at the age of twenty-one years. Parties must be considered to mean what their words imply in the usual acceptation thereof. Section 1508, Code 1892, defines the term “minor” to mean “any person under twenty-one years of age,” and this is the law. The removal of the disabilities of minority only authorizes the making of contracts in reference to the management of the property that the emancipated minor is lawfully the owner of. In this case Harvel Ray will not be the owner of the property described in the Kelly trust deed until he becomes twenty-one years of age. If the trustee had been ordered to make a deed in fee simple to the lands in question to the said Harvel Ray, and thereafter Harvel Ray had died dur
~We think the judgment of the chancellor correct, and it is therefore affirmed.