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Majority

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The state or condition of a person who has arrived at full age. He is then said to be a "major," in opposition to The greater number; more than all the opponents; more than half of the whole number or group.

146 Iowa, 215.

MAJUS DIGNUM TRAHIT AD SE minus dignum

The more worthy or the greater draws to it the less worthy or the lesser.

5 Viner, Abr. 584, 586; Co. Litt. 43, 355b; 2 Inst. 307; Finch, Law, 22.

MAJUS EST DELICTUM SEIPSUM OC cidere quam alium. It is a greater crime to kill one's self than another.