Puerility
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In civil law
A condition which commenced at the age of seven years, the end of the age of infancy, and lasted till the age of puberty,— that is, in females till the accomplishment of twelve years, and in The ancient Roman lawyers divided puerility into protdmus infantiae, as it approached Infancy, and into proximus pubertati, as it became nearer to puberty.
6 Toullier. Dr. Civ. note 100.
PUERITIA (Lat.) In civil law. Age from seven to fourteen.
4 Bl. Comm. 22; Wharton.
The age from birth to fourteen years in the male, or twelve in the female. Calv. Lex. The age from birth to seventeen.
Vicat.