See also:

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

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. See also:

• LAT

Lat. majoritas; Lat. See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

major, greater)  , a See also:

• TERM

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

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

majority of those See also:

• PRESENT

present at a See also:

• 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, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting and voting . In See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, majority is the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of being of full See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, which in the See also:

• UNITED

United See also:

• KINGDOM

Kingdom is twenty-one years of age . A See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person attains his majority at twelve o'See also:

• CLOCK

clock at See also:

• NIGHT

night of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day preceding his twenty-first birthday (see See also:

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

INFANT; AGE) .