Childless - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: childlessChildlessness
The state of being childless...
Childless
Destitute of chidren or offspring...
Issueless
Having no issue or progeny childless...
less
A privative adjective suffix denoting without destitute of not having as witless childless fatherless...
Orbate
Bereaved fatherless childless...
Age
Age, the criminal responsibility of males and females, and their power to do certain acts, depends upon their age. A child under 7 cannot commit any offence; between the ages of 7 and 14 is presumed to be doli incapax, but this presumption may be rebutted by evidence of the infant's capacity to discern good from evil (malitia supplet 'tatem-malice supplies age). The old rule in criminal matters was that a person of the age of 14 might be capitally punished for any capital offence, but under the age of 7 he could not. A male under the age of 14 years is presumed impotent as well as doli incapax, and since the presumption of impotence cannot be rebutted, R. v. Phillips, 8 C& P 736, he cannot be convicted of an offence involving carnal knowledge, except as a principal in the second degree in a rape, or the like, where if he has a mischievous discretion, the presumption of impotence will not excuse him from aiding and assisting in the commission of the offence. He may, it seems, be convict...
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