Where the petitioner is a minor, he or she shall sue by his or her next friend
to be approved by the Court; and no petition presented by a minor under this Act shall be filed until
the next friend has undertaken in writing to be answerable for costs.
Such undertaking 1
*** shall be filed in Court, and the next friend shall thereupon be liable in the same
manner and to the same extent as if he were a plaintiff in an ordinary suit.
1. The words “shall bear a stamp of eight annas and” rep. by Act 7 of 1870, s. 2 and the Schedule III.