Infant
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
At common law, one of either sex under the age of twenty-one years.
Co. Litt. 171.
By statute, the age at which females reach their majority has been lowered in some states. See "Age." INFANTIA (Lat. from infans). In the civil law. The age from birth till the completion of seven years.
4 Bl. Comm. 22; CalV.
Lex.; Heinec. Elem. Jur. Civ. lib.
1, tit. 21, § 247.