... important part) if the person can understand the nature, purpose and consequences of their actions. Now obviously the younger one is, this is going to effect their powers of judgement. So for that reason the law has put in place rules that protect the young by limiting their capacity to act and participate in legal interaction. And in ending, from a legal point of view a young person does not have the intelligence or the experience to participate in legal dealings, independently, before the age of 21 years. Ages of legal importance Generally speaking, at the age of 21 people acquire full capacity to enter into legal interaction. There are however, some other earlier ages of legal importance. For example, those children below the age of 7 (known as infantes) have no capacity to act, and they may not be held accountable for their actions, whether criminally or delictually. Between the ages ...

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