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Adolescence

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

That age which follows puberty, and precedes the age of majority. It commences for males at fourteen, and for females at twelve years completed, and continues till twenty-one years complete. ADOLESCENTIA (Lat. from ado Useere, to grow). In the civil law. Adolescence (q. v.).