legal age
legal age
le′gal age′
n.
| Noun | 1. |  legal age - the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs |
| 单词 | legal age | |||
| 释义 | legal agelegal agele′gal age′n.
Legal AgeLegal Agethe age, established by law, at which a person acquires civil transactional capacity and many other rights and duties. In the USSR the legal age is 18. Upon attaining the age of 18, citizens acquire the right to vote, civil rights, and rights and duties regarding marriage and the family—for example, the right to marry, adopt a child, and act as guardian or curator. In certain cases, some rights or duties expire with the attainment of legal age—for example, the right to receive support from one’s parents. Under the law, certain rights are acquired before the attainment of legal age—for example, the right to work (age 16) and partial transactional capacity among minors (age 15). Other rights are acquired after the attainment of legal age—for example, the right to be elected to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (age 21). Persons who have reached legal age bear full legal responsibility for their actions and deeds. Legal AgeLegal AgeThe time of life at which a person acquires full capacity to make his or her own contracts and deeds and to transact business or to enter into some particular contract or relation, such as marriage. In most states a minor attains legal age at eighteen, although for certain acts, such as consuming alcoholic beverages, the age might be higher; for others, such as driving, the age might be lower. Legal age is synonymous with age of consent or age of majority. legal agen. the age in which a person is responsible for his/her own actions (including the capacity to enter into a contract which is enforceable by the other party), for damages for negligence or intentional wrongs without a parent being liable, and for punishment as an adult for a crime. In almost all states the basic legal age is 18, which is the universal American voting age under the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1971. States' laws vary as to legal age for drinking or buying alcoholic beverages (sometimes with differences between beer and hard liquor), marriage with or without parental consent, driving, prosecution for crimes, the right to choose an abortion, and liability for damages. (See: minority, infancy, juvenile court, age of consent) legal agelegal ageThe age at which a minor may enter into binding contracts.legal age
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