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Dum fuit infra 'tatem

Dum fuit infra 'tatem (while he was within age), an abolished writ whereby one who had made a feoffment of his lands while an infant might, when

Mediaeligvalism

The method or spirit of the Middle Ages devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages a survival from the Middle Ages

Juvenile

Juvenile, means a boy who has not attained the age of sixteen years or a girl who has not attained the age of eighteen years. [Juvenile Justice Act,

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Majority

Majority. 1. The full age of 21 years; a minor comes of age in the eye of the law on the day preceding

Magna Carta

and our heirs for ever.' The 2nd chapter relates to the relief of the Crown's tenants of full age:-'If any of our earls or barons, or any other, which holdeth of us in chief by knight's service,

Kidnapping from lawful guardianship

Kidnapping from lawful guardianship, Whoever takes or entices any minor under sixteen years of age if a male, or under eighteen years of age if a female, or any person of unsound mind,

Dower

metes and bounds, for her life, whether she have issue by her husband or not, and of what age soever she may be at her husband's decease, provided she be past the age of nine years. The

Heirloom

so as to devolve with land until a tenant in tail by purchase is born or attains the age of 21 years, or so as otherwise to vest in some person becoming entitled to an estate of

Tomlinson v. Bulock, (1879) 4 QBD 230, unless the commencement be expressly postponed; and every minor comes of age on the day proceeding the twenty-first anniversary of his birthday, and may act as of full age the

Electoral roll

Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, (4) has to be of 18 years of age or above on the date of poll, Parliamentary Practice Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 26. In U.K.,

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