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Emancipationist

An advocate of emancipation esp the emancipation of slaves

Forisfamiliate

put out of a family hence to portion off so as to exclude further claim of inheritance to emancipate as a with his own consent from paternal authority

legal age

acts [the legal age for drinking in this state] ;broadly : age of majority compare age of consent, emancipate

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enfranchise

citizen and esp. to voting rights [the Twenty-sixth Amendment enfranchised all citizens over 18 years of age] compare emancipate

age of majority

by law the rights (as ability to sue) and responsibilities (as liability under contract) of an adult compare emancipate NOTE: At common law, the age of majority was 21. Age of majority is now set by statute,

age of consent

deemed competent by law to give consent esp. to sexual intercourse or marriage see also statutory rape compare emancipation, legal age

collation

collation [French, from Latin collatio bonorum (in Roman law) contribution made by emancipated heirs to an estate under an intestate succession, literally, bringing together of goods] in the civil law of

Disenthrallment

Liberation from bondage emancipation disinthrallment

VerbarNirvana

In the Buddhist system of religion the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of worldly existence as by

Institutions

same, but it is not so with free men, of whom some are free by birth, others by emancipation. The second Division of Persons begins at Title VIII. of the first book, and is explained in the

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