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Majority. 1. The full age of 21 years; a minor comes of age in the eye of the law on the day preceding the anniversary of his birth. 2. The grater number. In a deliberative body, questions are ordinarily decided by a majority of those present at a meeting and voting, provided that the whole number present be not less than a certain quorum (see QUORUM) of the whole body. See, e.g., Local Government Act, 1933, s. 75, and Parts I. to V. of the Third Schedule thereto. See MEETING, and as to restrictions upon the powers of a company exercised by a majority in general meeting, see Re Hoare & Co. Ltd., 150 LT 374.