All persons of the age of eighteen years or more, who are under no legal disability, are capable of contracting and are of full age for all purposes.
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3109.01
Age of majority
Applied in 30 court decisions — leading case Osborne v. Ohio (1990)
Most recently applied in Bittner v. Bittner (July 2025)
Effective: January 1, 1974; Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 1 - 110th General Assembly
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Ohio Laws & Administrative Rules (Legislative Service Commission). Reproduced from public-domain Ohio statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.