Full age; legal age; age at which a person is no longer a minor. The age at which, by law, a person is capable of being legally responsible for all of his or her acts (e.g. contractual obligations), and is entitled to the management of his or her own affairs and to the enjoyment of civic rights (e.g. right to vote). The opposite of minority. Also the status of a person who is a major in age.
The greater number. The number greater than half of any total.
The common-law age of majority is twenty-one although state legislatures may change this age by statute. INFANTS reach the age of majority on the first moment of the day preceding their twenty-first birthday. Minority is the period of time when a child is an infant.