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Quadriennium utile, means a four-year period after the attainment of majority within which the young adult may seek to annul any contract under seal made while the person was a minor, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1252.

The term of four years allowed to a minor after his majority, in which he might by suit or action endeavour to annul any deed to his prejudice granted during his minority, Bell's Scots Law Dict.