Minor Fact
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the law of evidence, A relative, collateral, or subordinate fact; a circumstance.
Wills, Cire. Ev. 27; Burrill, Cire. Evy. p. 121, note, 582.
Minor jurare non potest
A minor cannot make oath.
Co. Litt. 1726.
An infant cannot besworn on ajury.
Litt. 289.
Minor minorem custodire non debet, alios enim presumitur male regere qui seipsum regere nescit. A minor ought not to be guardian to a minor, for he who knows not how to govern himself is presumed to be unfit to govern others. Fleta, lib.
1, ¢. 10; Co. Litt. 880.
Minor non tenetur respondere durante minori state, nisi in causa dotis, propter favorem.
38 Bulst. 143.
A minor is not bound to reply during his minovity, except as a matter of favor in acause of dower. Minor qui infra wtatem 12 annorum fuerit ultagari non potest, nec extra legem poni, quia ante talem statem, non years of age cannot be outlawed, nor placed without the law, because before such age he is not under any law, nor in a deceunary. Minor septemdecim annis non admittitur fore executorem. A person under seventeen years is not admitted to be an execulur. 6 Coke, 67. <A rule of ecclesiastieal law.