pupillarity

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin pūpillāritās.

Noun

pupillarity (plural pupillarities)

1. (Scots law) The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females
2. 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.

Related terms

• pupillary