age of reason

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)

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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

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