pupillarity
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin pūpillāritās.
Noun
[edit]pupillarity (plural pupillarities)
- (Scots law) The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females
- pupilage
- 1668 December 19th, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
- The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the reſt.
- 1668 December 19th, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575