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Fraction of a day

comes of age on the day proceeding the twenty-first anniversary of his birthday, and may act as of full age the first moment of that day.

Heirloom

reference to land may be sold with the consent of the usufructuary for the time being if of full age (ibid., sub-s. 5). Heirlooms, is derived from 'loom', an anglo-saxon word meaning tool or utensil (See Oxford English

Minor

A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded an infant in England and the United States one under twenty one years of

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Sui juris

other disability, is said to be sui juris. Sui juris [Lat. 'of one's own right; independent'] 1. Of full age and capacity 2. Possessing full social and civil rights, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1448

University

member, and the Scottish Universities by s. 39 of the Scots Act of 1868. Men and women of full age and capacity who have received a degree (other than an honorary degree) at any University forming, or forming

Owner (Estate Owner)

an estate owner.' Estate owners for the purposes of the land legislation of 1925 include an owner of full age (including a corporation) who is the person designated by the land legislation of 1925 as the person having

Wages

the country Court, by s. 77 of the (English) County Courts Act, 1934, as if he were of full age. Wages of any 'servant, labourer, or workman' cannot be attached to satisfy judgments, (English) Wages Attachment Abolition Act,

Venia 'tatis

sovereign, in virtue of which a person is entitled to act, sui juris, as if he were of full age, Story's Conflict of Laws, 74.

Uses

any legal estate authorized by the L.P. Act which may be required) be conveyed to a person of full age upon the requisite trusts; and see ss. 130 to 132 of the same Act; also s. 65 (reservations

Undivided shares in land

Land Act, 1925], or (s. 34, L.P. Act, 1925) by a conveyance of the land to persons of full age in undivided shares having the effect of making the grantees, or if there are more than four, the

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