Minor Fact
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In the law of evidence. A relative, collateral or subordinate fact; a circumstance. Wills, Circ. Ev. 27; Burrill, Circ. Ev. p. 121, note 582.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In the law of evidence. A relative, collateral, or subordinate fact; a circumstance. Wills, Circ. Ev. 27 ; Burrill, Circ. Ev. p. 121, note, 582.
Defined under Minor in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In the law of evidence, A relative, collateral, or subordinate fact; a circumstance. Wills, Cire. Ev. 27; Burrill, Cire. Evy. p. 121, note, 582. Minor jurare non potest. A minor cannot make oath. Co. Litt. 1726. An infant cannot besworn on ajury. Litt. 289. Minor minorem custodire non debet, alios enim presumitur male regere qui seipsum regere nescit. A minor ought not to be guardian to a minor, for he who knows not how to govern himself is presumed to be unfit to govern others. Fleta, lib. 1, ¢. 10; Co. Litt. 880. Minor non tenetur respondere durante minori state, nisi in causa dotis, propter favorem. 38 Bulst. 143. A minor is not bound to reply during his minovity, except as a matter of favor in acause of dower. Minor qui infra wtatem 12 annorum fuerit ultagari non potest, nec extra legem poni, quia ante talem statem, non years of age cannot be outlawed, nor placed without the law, because before such age he is not under any law, nor in a deceunary. Minor septemdecim annis non admittitur fore executorem. A person under seventeen years is not admitted to be an execulur. 6 Coke, 67. <A rule of ecclesiastieal law.