| 单词 | to plead the baby act |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto plead the baby act P1. U.S. to plead the baby act: (Law) to assert a person's status as a minor, often in referring to a contract signed while under-age; (in extended use) to plead that one is not responsible for something on the grounds of youth or inexperience (usually depreciative). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > plead [verb (intransitive)] > enter specific plea to plead specially1768 to plead the baby act1837 to read the baby act1899 1837 [see sense 1]. 1844 Mississippi Free Trader & Natchez Gaz. 18 Oct. Judge Guion, known by reputation to all present to be a full grown man, had pleaded the ‘baby act’. 1862 Merchants' Mag. Dec. 581 We have heard of minors making contracts and subsequently pleading the baby act. 1888 Congress. Rec. Aug. App. 440/1 [Mr. S. S. Cox] admits the authorship..but pleads the baby act, and says he was a boy when he wrote it. 1901 Forum Jan. 592 One minute reading the riot act of manly independence, and the next pleading the baby-act of thoughtless irresponsibility. 1925 N.Y. Univ. Law Rev. 2 128 The Court of Chancery in England..permitted it [sc. the child] to plead the baby act whenever it did anything adverse to its interests. < as lemmas |
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