Use when an adult's age is critical to the point of law being discussed. For questions about children in relation to family-law use the "Children" tag, and for those concerning the legal rights and responsibilities of young humans in general use the "minor" tag.
Questions tagged [age]
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Are times zones, (i.e. a geo-spatial frame of reference) considered in age based regulations?
Bob was born in British Columbia (GMT-7) on March 7th at 11 p.m. local time. Alice was born the next day, March 8th, in Nova Scotia (GMT-3) at 1 a.m. local time, which is 2 hours before Bob was born, due to the time zone difference.
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Retrospective revelation regarding age
Let's say a person is convicted of a crime and incarcerated. If it is found afterwards that at the time of the crime he was not yet 18 (or whatever is the age of maturity in that system), and that he turned 18 two days after committing the crime, is…
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