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 Rh of Court made at the father's instance or (b) tacit, as when a son is permitted to live and carry on business by himself; (3) marriage; (4) majority; to which Voet adds (5) public office or priesthood; and Grotius (6) the placing of the father under curatorship.

MINORITY

by Roman-Dutch Law is a person of either sex who has not completed the twenty-fifth year. For this the twenty-first year has been substituted by statute in all the Roman-Dutch Colonies. As to the precise moment at which minority ends Voet makes the following distinction. The last day of minority is regarded as completed at the moment of its inception, where it is to the minor's advantage that it should be so considered; but where the advantage lies the other way, so as, e.g., to prolong the benefit of restitutio in integrum, then, majority is not deemed to be attained until the very minute arrives at which birth took place.