age of discretion

American  

noun

Law.

1. the age at which a person becomes legally responsible for certain acts and competent to exercise certain powers.

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Example Sentences

Of lands and houses, nothing is sold till the children arrive at the age of discretion; when each is entitled to his share, the rest being unsold till the others are of age in turn.

From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey

While Inge and Sigurd were in their childhood, they had a court together; but Eystein, who was come to age of discretion, had a court for himself.

From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

He was thirty-five when he married— accounted an age of discretion.

From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.

By this latter instrument, as well as by that of the preceding year, the duke's office was to cease upon the prince of Wales arriving at the age of discretion.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

If he had, when he arrived at what is usually called the age of discretion, inscribed himself among the sons of Italy—à la bonheur.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Baerlein, Henry