MINOR

An infant or person who is under the age of legal competence. A term derived from the civil law, which described a person under a certain age as le than so many years. Minor viginti quinque ann is, one le than twenty-five years of age. Inst. 1, 14, 2. Also, le ; of le consideration; lower; a person of inferior condition. Fleta, 2, 47, 13, 15; Calvin. -Minor ret a11. Lat. Minority or Infancy. Cro. Car. 516. Literally, le er S:ge.-Mino:r fact. In the law of evidence. A relative, collateral, or subordinate fact; a circumstance. Wills, Circ. Ev. 27; Burrill, Circ. Ev. p. 121, note, 582. Minor ante temp us agere non potest in casu proprietatis nee etiam con venire; differetur usque retatem; sed non cad it breve. 2 Inst. 291. A minor before majority cannot act in a case of property, nor even agree; it should be deferred until majority; but the writ does not fail. Minor jurare non potest. A minor can~ not make oath. Co. Litt. 172b. An infant cannot be sworn on a jury. Litt. 289. Minor minorem custodire non debet, alios enim prresumitur male regere qui seipsum regere nescit. A minor ought not to be guardian to a minor, for he 'who knows not how to govern himself Is presumed to be unfit to govern others. Fleta, llb. 1, c. 10; Co. Litt. 88b. Minor non tenetur respon.de1'e durante minor i retate, nisi in causa dot is, propter favorem. 3 Buist. 143. A minor is not bound to reply d11.ring his minority, except as a matter of favor in a cause of dower. Minor qui infra retatem 12 a.n.norum fuerit ultago.ri non potest, nee extra legem poni, qui a ante talem retatem, non est sub lege aliqua, nee in dec,enna. Oo. Litt. 128. A minor who is under twelve years of age cannot be outlawed, nor placed without the law, because before such age he is not under any law, nor in a decennary. Minor septemdecim ann is non admit-- titur fore executorem. A person under seventeen years is not admitted to be an executor; 6 Coke, 67, A rule of ecclesiastical law. [s. 787]