 | William Hutton - Equity - 1787 - 478 pages
...What age was you when you were baptized ? D. I cannot tell. C.. A man arrives at maturity twenty -one years after "the day of his birth, not his baptifm. We generally fuppofe a child may be a month elder than the date of the regifter. But in cafes where one party wifhes to defraud another, it becomes... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 900 pages
...arrives at maturity twenty-one years after the day of his birth, not his baptism. We generally suppose a child may be a month older than the date of the register. But in cases where one party wishes to defraud another, it becomes necessary to draw the... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 pages
...arrives at maturity twenty-one years after the day of his birth, not his baptism. We generally suppose a child may be a month older than the date of the register. But in cases where one party wishes to defraud another, it becomes necessary to draw the... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 276 pages
...arrives at maturity twenty-one years after the day of his birth, not his baptism. We generally suppose a child may be a month older than the date of the register. But in cases where one party wishes to defraud another, it becomes necessary to draw the... | |
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... court-day he produced one from the church register. ' Court. — This proof does not come up to the point. What age were you when you were baptised ? ' Defendant. — I cannot tell. ' Court. — A man arrives at maturity twenty-one years after the... 