Minor (law)

In law, a minor is a person under a certain age—usually the age of majority—which legally demarcates childhood from adulthood. The age of majority depends upon jurisdiction and application, but is generally 18. Minor may also be used in contexts unconnected to the overall age of majority. For example, the drinking age in the United States is 21, and people below this age are sometimes called minors even if they are older than 18. The term underage often refers to those under the age of majority, but may also refer to persons under a certain age limit, such as the drinking age, smoking age, age of consent, marriageable age, driving age, voting age, etc. These age limits are often different from the age of majority.

The concept of minor is not sharply defined in most jurisdictions. The ages of criminal responsibility and consent, the age at which school attendance is no longer obligatory, the age at which legally binding contracts can be entered into, and so on, may be different.

Canon law

Canon law is the body of laws and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (Church leadership), for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. It is the internal ecclesiastical law governing the Catholic Church (both Latin Church and Eastern Catholic Churches), the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, and the individual national churches within the Anglican Communion. The way that such church law is legislated, interpreted and at times adjudicated varies widely among these three bodies of churches. In all three traditions, a canon was originally a rule adopted by a church council; these canons formed the foundation of canon law.

Etymology

Greek kanon / Ancient Greek: κανών,Arabic Qanun / قانون, Hebrew kaneh / קנה, "straight"; a rule, code, standard, or measure; the root meaning in all these languages is "reed" (cf. the Romance-language ancestors of the English word "cane").

Canons of the Apostles

The Apostolic Canons or Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles is a collection of ancient ecclesiastical decrees (eighty-five in the Eastern, fifty in the Western Church) concerning the government and discipline of the Early Christian Church, incorporated with the Apostolic Constitutions which are part of the Ante-Nicene Fathers In the fourth century the First Council of Nicaea (325) calls canons the disciplinary measures of the Church: the term canon, κανὠν, means in Greek, a rule. There is a very early distinction between the rules enacted by the Church and the legislative measures taken by the State called leges, Latin for laws.

Law (surname)

Law is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Acie Law IV (born 1985), American basketball player
  • Alfred Law (1860–1939), English politician
  • Alfred Law (cricketer) (1862–1919), English cricketer
  • Alvin Law (born 1960), Canadian motivational speaker
  • Andrew Law (disambiguation), several people
  • Annie Law (died 1889), conchologist
  • Bernard Francis Law (born 1931), former Archbishop of Boston
  • Bonar Law (1858–1923), British prime minister
  • Brian Law (born 1970), Welsh international footballer
  • Evander M. Law (1836–1920), general in the Confederate States Army
  • Denis Law (born 1940), Scottish football player
  • Don Law (1902–1982), English-born country music record producer and executive
  • John Law (disambiguation), several people
  • Jude Law (born 1972), English actor
  • Peter Law (1948–2006), Welsh politician
  • Peter Law (actor) (born 1948), English actor and father of Jude Law
  • Phyllida Law (born 1932), Scottish actress
  • Rick Law (born 1969), American illustrator
  • Robert D. Law (1944–1969), United States Medal of Honor recipient
  • Legal education

    Legal education is the education of individuals who intend to become legal professionals or those who simply intend to use their law degree to some end, either related to law (such as politics or academic) or business. It includes:

  • First degrees in law, which may be studied at either undergraduate or graduate level depending on the country.
  • Vocational courses which prospective lawyers are required to pass in some countries before they may enter practice.
  • Applied legal education for specific branches of law such as, Business law, Human resource and Labour laws, Property laws, Family laws, Human rights & Legal awareness, Taxation law and many more.
  • Higher academic degrees and doctorate.
  • Overview

    In addition to the qualifications required to become a practicing lawyer, legal education also encompasses higher degrees, such as doctorates, for more advanced academic study.

    In many countries other than the United States, law is an undergraduate degree. Graduates of such a program are eligible to become lawyers by passing the country's equivalent of a bar exam. In such countries, graduate programs in law enable students to embark on academic careers or become specialized in a particular area of law.

    Minor

    Minor may refer to:

  • Minor (law), a person under the age of majority or another age restriction
  • Academic minor, a secondary field of study in undergraduate education
  • Music theory

  • Minor chord
  • Barbershop seventh chord or minor seventh chord
  • Minor interval
  • Minor key
  • Minor scale
  • Mathematics

  • Minor (graph theory), the relation of one graph to another given certain conditions
  • Minor (linear algebra), the determinant of a certain submatrix
  • People

  • Dan Minor (1909–1982), American jazz trombonist
  • Kyle Minor (born 1976), American writer
  • Mike Minor (actor) (born 1940), American actor
  • Mike Minor (baseball) (born 1987), American baseball pitcher
  • William Chester Minor (1834–1920), American contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary
  • Places

  • Minor, Alabama, United States
  • Asia Minor, the westernmost region of Asia
  • Minor Creek, a stream in California
  • Sports

  • Minor league, a sports league not regarded as a premier league
    • Minor League Baseball or "the minors", the North American professional baseball leagues affiliated to but below Major League Baseball
  • Graph minor

    In graph theory, an undirected graph H is called a minor of the graph G if H can be formed from G by deleting edges and vertices and by contracting edges.

    The theory of graph minors began with Wagner's theorem that a graph is planar if and only if its minors do not include the complete graph K5 nor the complete bipartite graph K3,3. The Robertson–Seymour theorem implies that an analogous forbidden minor characterization exists for every property of graphs that is preserved by deletions and edge contractions. For every fixed graph H, it is possible to test whether H is a minor of an input graph G in polynomial time; together with the forbidden minor characterization this implies that every graph property preserved by deletions and contractions may be recognized in polynomial time.

    Other results and conjectures involving graph minors include the graph structure theorem, according to which the graphs that do not have H as a minor may be formed by gluing together simpler pieces, and Hadwiger's conjecture relating the inability to color a graph to the existence of a large complete graph as a minor of it. Important variants of graph minors include the topological minors and immersion minors.

    Minor (Tashkent Metro)

    Minor is a station of the Tashkent Metro on Yunusobod Line which was opened on 26 October 2001.

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