Minor
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
One who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; a person less than twenty-one years old; an infant. Minority: the civil condition of a person under age. In Scotch law, minor, when used in contradistinction to "pupil," signifies males) and under that of majority (in both sexes, twenty-one years).
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