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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.

Baby act

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Definition:
Defending an action on grounds of infancy or limitations.
Baby Act

Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

Definition:
A plea of infancy, interposed for the purpose of defeating an action upon a contract made while the person was a minor, is vulgarly called "pleading the baby act." By extension, the term is applied to a plea of the statute of limitations.