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 Rh majority may have been anticipated by marriage or venia aetatis; (2) women, except a mother and grandmother, and they only so long as they have not contracted a second marriage; (3) creditors and debtors of the minor, if the debt is considerable and the Court sees fit to exclude them.

To these the laws of the Cape and of the Transvaal add: (4) any person who as witness has attested the execution of any will which appoints such person guardian, and the wife or husband of such person.

The second class includes: (1) soldiers; (2) persons already burdened with three guardianships; (3) persons upwards of seventy years of age; (4) persons disqualified by sickness or infirmity. This list is not exhaustive; nor by the common law can any one claim exemption as of right. In fact, no rigid rule can be laid down; for in the modern law the whole matter lies in the discretion of the Court. In South Africa, however, excuses are