Adolescentia
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from adolescere, to grow.] In the civil law. Adolescence, or youth; the age between puberty and majority; commencing at fourteen in males, and twelve in females.
1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 136, § 126.