MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

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MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater) , a

term

TERM

signifying the greater number. In legislative and deliberative assemblies it is usual to decide questions by a

majority

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat.
major
, greater)

of those present at a

meeting

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit,
moot
- MOOT
, an assembly of the
people
- PEOPLE
; cf. witanagemot)

and voting. In law,

majority

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat.
major
, greater)

is the state of being of full age, which in the United

Kingdom

KINGDOM

is twenty-one years of age. A person attains his majority at twelve o'

clock

CLOCK

at night of the day preceding his twenty-first birthday (see

INFANT

INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

; AGE).

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