Meaning of age of judgment | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The age at which a child is presumed to be able to judge the difference between right and wrong
2. The time of the Last Judgment

Examples

“The reason⟳ of the distinction between the contracts of minors under the age of 18 and the contracts of minors over 18 years is this, that a minor under the age of 18 is presumed not to have⟳ arrived at an age of judgment and discretion sufficient to protect⟳ him from the schemes of those who might take⟳ advantage of his infancy to defraud him ; and all persons who enter⟳ into a contract with a minor under the age of 18 must do so at the peril of having such a contract absolutely disowned and disaffirmed. Civil Code, Section 35.”

“The students are growing and developing at an astonishing rate mentally, physically, and morally. They are no longer children nor have⟳ they reached the age of judgment and discretion, but are in the period of transition, of vital and tremendous change⟳.”

“Thus if God fixes and determines the Day of Judgment, upon the foreſight of ſuch a General Impiety as will deſerve a final exciſion, God cannot reveal⟳ this to the World: For one would think⟳ it impoſſible, did the World know⟳ this beforehand, but the Age of Judgment ſhould be the moſt Devout and Religious Age, that ever had been from the beginning of the World; and then that would not be a fit time to deſtroy the World; and God could not foreſee it the propereſt time of Judgment.”

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