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Puberty

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The age of fourteen in males and twelve in females, when they are held fit for, and capable of contracting, marriage. Otherwise called the "age of consent to marriage."

1 Bl. Comm. 436; 2 Kent, Comm. 78. See State v. Pierson, 44 Ark. 265.