age of reason
age of reason 理性年龄；责任年龄 指一个人开始能够辨别是非，并且在法律上能够承担民事或刑事责任的年龄。在美国，关于这一年龄的限定各司法管辖区并不相同，但一般认为，7岁以下的儿童绝对不承担任何责任，14岁以下的儿童适用可反驳的推定。在英格兰，刑事责任年龄被提高到10岁，在苏格兰则被提高到8岁。 (→age of discretion; infancy)
age of reason
age of reason
The age at which a person becomes able to distinguish right from wrong and is thus legally capable of committing a crime or tort. • The age of reason varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but 7 years is traditionally the age below which a child is conclusively presumed not to have committed a crime or