INFANS

INFANT I A. In the Roman law there were several distinctions of age which were made with reference to the capacity for doing legal acts:—1. The first period was from birth to the end of the seventh year, during which time persons were called Infantes , or Qui far i non po unt . 2. The second period was from the end of seven years to the end of fourteen or twelve years, according as the person was a male or a female, during which persons were defined as those Qui far i po unt . The persons included in these first two cla es were Impuberes . 3. The third period was from the end of the twelfth or fourteenth to the end of the twenty-fifth year, during which period persons were Adolescentes , Adulti . The persons included in these three cla es were minores xxv ann is or annorum, and were often, for brevity’s sake, called minores only [ Curator ]; and the persons included in the third and fourth cla were Puberes . 4. The fourth period was from the age of twenty-five, during which persons were Majores .