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pupillarity, pupilarity Civil and Sc. Law.|pjuːpɪˈlærɪtɪ|
[a. F. pupillarité (14th c.), ad. med.L. *pūpillāritās, f. L. pūpillār-is pupillar a.1: see -ity.]
The state of being below the age of puberty; the period during which a person remains in this state.
1583–4Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 641 His tutour..during the yeiris of his pupillaritie. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Stat. Robt. I 29 Be reason the heire is within age (within the yeares of pupillaritie). 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 83 The stages of life principally distinguished in law are, pupillarity, puberty or minority, and majority. A child is under pupillarity from the birth till fourteen years of age, if a male, and till twelve, if a female. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. v, ‘Very true, gudewife,..we are in loco parentis to him during his years of pupillarity.’ 1869Act 32 & 33 Vict. c. 116 §7 (Scotland) Demand..intimated to the Grantor, whether of full age or in pupillarity or minority. 1880Muirhead Gaius i. §197 A minor who has passed the years of pupillarity shall have the assistance of a curator.
b. loosely. Childhood. rare.
1846Blackw. Mag. LIX. 666 The deep-seated mischief of..mispronunciation in a Cockney whose years of pupilarity have been passed on the spot of his birth. |