Baby act
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Defending an action on grounds of infancy or limitations.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A term of reproach originally applied to the disability of infancy when pleaded by an adult in bar of recovery upon a contract made while he was under age, but extends to any plea of the statute of limitations. Anderson's Diet. L.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
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.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
A term of reproach originally applied to the disability of infancy when pleaded by an adult in bar of recovery upon a contract made while he was under age, but extended to any plea of the statute of limita.tions.