Age of consent

Age Of Consent
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the age at which, according to the law, persons are bound by their words and acts.

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In family law, age of consent refers to the age one can give meaningful consent to enter into a marriage. If over the age of 18 years, meaningful consent is presumed.

Age Of Consent See: legal age, age of majority
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age of consent
n. the age at 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), ...

sexual intercourse with a female below the legal age of consent but above the age of a child, even if the female gave her consent, did not resist and/or mutually participated.

see also age of consent informed consent rape statutory rape
b : a defense claiming that the victim consented to an alleged crime (as rape) ...

(n) Statutory rape is the sexual intercourse with a female, whether or not she has consented to such an action, who was neither a child nor reached the age of consent. The age of consent and age limit of a child varies from state to state.

New York holds the following types of marriages as voidable: under the age of consent (DRL 7(1)), lack of consent due to lack of understanding (DRL 7(2)) inability to enter into the marital relationship (DRL 7(3)), force, duress or fraud (DRL 7(4)), ...

not absolutely void, and existing at the death of the hushand; a wife de facto, whose marriage is voidable by decree, as well as a wife de jure, is entitled to it; and the wife shall be endowed, though the marriage be within the age of consent, ...

See also: Consent, State, Person, Law, Rape