INFANT
infant, n.1. A newborn baby.
2. MINOR(1).
¡°An infant in the eyes of the law is a person under the age of twenty-one years, and at that period (which is the same in the French and generally in the American law) he or she is said to attain majority; and for his torts and crimes an infant may be liable; but for his contracts, as a general rule, he is not liable, unless the contract is for necessaries.¡± John Indermaur, Principles of the Common Law 195 (Edmund H. Bennett ed., 1st Am. ed. 1878).
¡°[I]nfant ¡ª the one technical word that we have as a contrast for the person of full age ¡ª stands equally well for the new-born babe and the youth who is in his twenty-first year.¡± 2 Frederick Pollock & Frederic William Maitland, History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I 439 (2d ed. 1899).
¡°The common-law rule provided that a person was an infant until he reached the age of twenty-one. The rule continues at the present time, though by statute in some jurisdictions the age may be lower.¡± John Edward Murray Jr., Murray on Contracts ¡ì 12, at 18 (2d ed. 1974).
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