Guardians: A Research Note

American Journal of Legal History

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1996, Pages

  Friedman, Lawrence M ^a   Grossman, Joanna L ^a   Guthrie, Chris ^a  

^a NONE

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EID: 0042594331     PISSN: 00029319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/845569     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. HASSELTINE BYRD TAYLOR, LAW OF GUARDIAN AND WARD 3 (1935) (hereinafter cited as "TAYLOR").
2. Statutory guardianships emerged in England in 1660, 12 Charles II, c. 24 (1660), though the institution itself is much older. The colony of Massachusetts had a guardianship law on its books as early as 1641. COLONIAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS 1 (1672).
3. See, e.g., RICHARD W. FOX, SO FAR DISORDERED IN MIND: INSANITY IN CALIFORNIA, 1870-1930 (1978) (hereinafter cited as "FOX"); THOMAS SCHEFF, BEING MENTALLY ILL: A SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY (1966).
4. Id.