age of discretion

You have now reached the age of discretion.

You, perhaps, might reach Thanatos- but your baby is beneath the age of discretion.

Christians should receive Holy Communion when they have attained the age of discretion.

Her daughter would keep her ring until reaching the age of discretion; then she could do with it as she chose.

If such a state of reason, such an age of discretion made him free, the same shall make his son free too.

This also extended to children who had reached the "age of discretion", though he did not permit the ancient Eastern practice of infant communion.

In 1910, he issued the decree Quam Singulari, which changed the age of discretion from 12 to 7 years old.

Anne Shelton and Joy Shelton - "The Age of Discretion".

The Code prescribes the age of discretion also for the sacraments of Penance and first Holy Communion.

Krishnaraja Wodeyar attained the age of 16 in early 1810 and hence attained the age of discretion.

As for my youthful appearance, I am old enough to have reached the age of discretion, and not so old as to have fallen into my second childhood."

When a lady has not reached the age of discretion or when she is not in a position to make decisions for herself, such shyness is not unreasonable.

They were eleven and nine years old; Atropos believed she had enough mortal years left in her to get the older one to the age of discretion before she died.

"The age of discretion, both for Confession and for Holy Communion, is the time when a child begins to reason, that is about the seventh year, more or less."

That the pupils in question were not also prosecuted suggests that they were under what was then taken as of the "age of discretion", i.e., fourteen years or older.

The powers above held themselves in abeyance while Your Majesty was still a boy, but now that you have so perfectly reached the age of discretion they are making their displeasure known.

The tale begins with a variation on the story of Adam and Eve before introducing the reader to a nameless youth who, having reached "the age of discretion," receives counsel from his parents.

In the Roman Catholic canon law, the age of reason, also called the age of discretion, is the age at which children attain the use of reason and begin to have moral responsibility.

The Code of Canon Law requires all Catholics who have attained the age of discretion to confess serious sins at least once a year, although frequent reception of the sacrament is recommended.

Dewan Purnaiah was selected as the Dewan of Mysore with an indication that he should be loyal to the king till the king himself attains an age of discretion.

The age of discretion, also known as the age of reason, is defined by the Church as: "The name given to that period of human life at which persons are deemed to begin to be morally responsible."

According to the writings of Matteo Palmieri, adolescence began with the "termination of childhood at the age of discretion" and ended, using a division of the life cycle based on multiples of seven, at age 28.)

He is under his father's tuition and authority till he come to age of discretion, and then he is a free man, at liberty what government he will put himself under, what body politic he will unite himself to.

Mistress Winifred Seybourne emigrated to Maryland in 1638 who by her title indicated gentle birth and likewise one who arrived to the age of discretion to be recognized as a femme sole in matter of ethics and business.