Note 237 — OF MARRIAGE.
Reading edition
Œtas plena, or full age, regularly is one and twenty, Co. Litt 79. 103. 1 Hale Pl. c. 17. The Roman law makes it twenty-five, Institut. lib. 1. tit. 23. De Curatoribus. Dig. lib. 4. tit. 4. De Minoribus. Taylor’s Civil Law, 255, 256. In France it was thirty for males. Potier. In Holland 25.