Legal Definition and Related Resources of Pueritia
Meaning of Pueritia
(Lat.) In civil law. Age from seven to fourteen. 4 Bl. Comm. 22; Wharton. The age from birth to fourteen years in the male, or twelve in the female. Calv. Lex. The age from birth to seventeen. Vicat.
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Concept of “Pueritia”
Traditional meaning of pueritia in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Childhood; the age from seven to fourteen; see 4th Book (“Of Public Wrongs”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 22.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Pueritia”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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