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MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. See also: term signifying the greater number
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In legislative and deliberative assemblies it is usual to decide questions by a majority of those See also: present at a meeting and voting
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In See also: law, majority is the See also: state of being of full age, which in the See also: United See also: Kingdom is twenty-one years of age
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A See also: person attains his majority at twelve o'See also: clock at See also: night of the See also: day preceding his twenty-first birthday (see INFANT; AGE)
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