: the age at which a person enters into full adult legal rights and responsibilities (as of making contracts or wills)
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThese include banning assault-style firearms such as the AR-15 style rifles used in Buffalo and Uvalde, or raising the legal age for buying them. Alan Fram, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022 These include banning assault-style firearms such as the AR-15 style rifles used in Buffalo and Uvalde, or raising the legal age for buying them. Alan Fram, ajc, 12 June 2022 These include banning assault-style firearms such as the AR-15 style rifles used in Buffalo and Uvalde, or raising the legal age for buying them. Alan Fram, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2022 These include banning assault-style firearms such as the AR-15 style rifles used in Buffalo and Uvalde, or raising the legal age for buying them. Alan Fram, Chron, 12 June 2022 And after every school shooting, federal firearm legislation, such as universal background checks or raising the legal age to buy a long-gun from 18 to 21, is proposed once again. Eric W. Fleegler, Scientific American, 2 June 2022 Advocates had luck raising the legal age to purchase tobacco products to 21 by starting those efforts in cities and towns. Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 7 May 2022 And although gun homicides disproportionately affect people younger than 21, the law does not raise the legal age for buying semiautomatic weapons to 21, from 18. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2022 And although gun homicides disproportionately affect people under 21, the law does not raise the legal age for buying semiautomatic weapons to 21, from 18. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 26 June 2022 See More
Word History
First Known Use
1658, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
legal age
noun
le·gal age ˈlē-gəl-
: the age at which a person enters into full adult legal rights and responsibilities (as of making contracts or wills)
Legal Definition
legal age
noun
: an age at which a person becomes entitled under the law to engage in a particular activity or becomes responsible for particular acts
the legal age for drinking in this state
broadly: age of majority compare age of consent, emancipate