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Legal age

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

Black's Law Dictionary

The age at which the person acquires full capacity to make his own contracts and deeds and transact business generally (age of majority) or to enter into some particular contract or relation, as, the "legal age of consent" to marriage.

See Capwell v. Cap-well, 21 R. I. 101, 41 Atl. 1005, Montoya de Antonio v. Miller, 7 N. M. 289, 34 Pac. 40, 21 L. R. A. 699.