The term “infant,” when used in any statute, shall include any person, male or female, under twenty-one years of age.
Miss. Code Ann. § 1-3-21
Infant
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Clemons v. State (1999)
Most recently applied in Baker v. RR Brink Locking Systems, Inc. (July 2013)
Codes, 1892, § 1505; 1906, § 1582; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1349; 1930, § 1373; 1942, § 681.
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Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.