Minor
Defined in 10 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879), Bouvier (1839)
Definitions from Case Law
From 390 U.S. 629 - Ginsberg v. New York · 1968Most cited · 2,162 citing opinions
any person under the age of seventeen years.
United States Code
18 U.S.C. § 2256 — for the purposes of this chapter
“minor” means any person under the age of eighteen years;
18 U.S.C. § 25 — in this section
Minor.—The term “minor” means a person who has not reached 18 years of age.
18 U.S.C. § 3559 — in this section
the term “minor” means an individual who has not attained the age of 17 years; and
20 U.S.C. § 1228C — as used in this section
The term “minor” means an individual who has not attained the age of 18 years.
25 U.S.C. § 544 — in this section
Purchase of land or interests in land; improvement of lands acquired or already held by the Indian; erection and improvement of suitable homes including household equipment and furnishings; repayment of any loans received from the United States or from the Klamath tribal funds; purchase of building material, feed, seed, and grain; purchase or rehabilitation and repair of farming equipment, tools, trucks, tractors, machinery, and implements; and purchase of any other equipment or supplies necessary to enable the Indians to fit themselves for or to engage in farming, livestock, industry, or such other pursuits or vocations, including education and adult education, as will enable them to become self-supporting; and health, including dental work: Provided, however, That the funds of the aged, infirm, decrepit, and incapacitated members may be used for their proper maintenance and support: Provided further, That during minority the share of each minor Indian shall be available for expenditure only for his education and for health purposes, including dental work, except that in an emergency expenditure of a minor Indian's share may be made for any of the purposes specified in this section and section 545 of this title. As herein used, the term “minor” shall include all members of the tribe who have not attained the age of twenty-one years, except that minors eighteen years of age or over and who are married or have families of their own to support, shall be regarded as adults. On the death of any enrolled member, adult or minor, the sum on deposit to his credit shall be distributed as personal property, and shall be available for expenditure by the distributees only for the purposes herein authorized: And provided further, That each member of the Klamath Tribes honorably discharged from service to the United States in its armed forces shall, upon application to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, be paid $200 in cash, free from the aforesaid restrictions and in addition to the $500 to be credited to such member as provided in this section.
25 U.S.C. § 609C — for purposes of this section
“minor” means a member of a tribe, or descendant of a member of a tribe, who has not attained the age of eighteen years and who has a minor's share;
25 U.S.C. § 609C — for purposes of this section
“minor’s share” means the per capita share of a judgment award, and the investment income accruing thereto, which is held in trust by the Secretary for a minor; and
42 U.S.C. § 16911 — in this subchapter
The term “minor” means an individual who has not attained the age of 18 years.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
QUI INFRA AETATEM 12 ANnorum fuerit, utiagari non potest, nee extra legem poni, quia ante talem aetatem, non est sub lege aiiqua, nee in decenna. A minor who is under twelve years of age cannot be outlawed, nor placed without the laws, because, before such age, he is not under any laws, nor in a decennary. Co. Litt. 128. MINOR 17 ANNIS, NON ADMITTITUR fore exeeutorem. A minor under seventeen years of age is not admitted to be an executor. 6 Coke, 67.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
An infant or person who Is under the age of legal competence. A term derived from the civil law, which described a person under a certain age as less than se many years. Minor vigmtl quinque annis, one less than twenty-five years of age. Inst. 1, 14, 2. Also, less; of less consideration; lower; a person of inferior condition. Fleta, 2, 47, 13, 15; Calvin.
— Minor ætas. Lat Minority or infancy. Gro. Car. 516. Literally, lesser age.
— Minor fact. In the law of evidence. A relative, collateral, or subordinate fact; a circumstance. Wills, Circ. Ev. 27 ; Burrill, Circ. Ev. p. 121, note, 582.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
1. Less; younger; an infant.
In old English law. A person of lower nority or infancy. Minor jnrare non oath. Minor 17 annis non admittitur under seventeen years i^ not admitted minorem custodire non debet, alios gere qni seipsnm regere nescit: a to a minor, for he who knows not sumed to be unfit to govern others.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
An infant or person who is under the age of legal competence. A term derived from the civil law, which described a persun under 4 certain age as less than 30 many years. Minor viginti quinque ants, one less than twenty-five years of age. Inst. 1, 14, 2. Also, less; of less consideration; lower; a person of inferior condition, Fleta, 2, 47, 13, 15; Calvin.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
I. Less; younger; an infant. Minor jurare non potest: a minor cannot make oath. Minor 17 annis non admittitur fore executorem: a person under seventeen is not admitted to be executor. Minor aetas: infancy. Minora regalia: the lesser prerogatives of the Crown.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
One who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; a person less than twenty-one years old; an infant. Minority: the civil condition of a person under age. In Scotch law, minor, when used in contradistinction to "pupil," signifies males) and under that of majority (in both sexes, twenty-one years). Bell.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
persons. One under the States of the operations of the mint, age of twenty-one years while in a ‘and its branches for the year prestate of infancy; one who has not.ceding. And also to the secretary attained the age of a major. The! of the treasury, from time to time, terms major and minor are more as said secretary shall require, setrticularly used in the civil law.) ting forth all the operations of the he common law terms are adult; mint subsequent to the last report and infant. made upon the subject.