Genealogy Chat

Thanks Heather will do! But for the record written 1719 December ... proved 1724.

Carole, seems unlikely but when the will was written and when it was proved is two different times isnt it?

Nip over to Family Tree Forum - Im sure someone will pop up with an answer :)

http://www.familytreeforum.com/index.php

I have spent hours googling but I'm still uncertain if it would be legal or not?

The question actually relates to a will I have, dated 1719, where it would seem that the sole executor might be only nine years old. ... I would be quite pleased to learn that this was not legally possible, as it would bring into question his currently accepted DOB and force us to re-evaluate.

OK. Thank you for that
I'm sure you have answered the question I asked ... but maybe I didn't use the correct terminology?
I'm not sure if voting age, is synonymous with being considered to be legally responsible; thus being able to enter into contracts and the like.
Are they one and the same thing?
Carole

When the age of majority (voting age, the age of full citizenship) was reduced in 1970 to 18 years of age, the qualification that a nominee must be 21 was expressly preserved.

This law dates back to 1695.

All persons who are not a British or Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland are officially legally termed "aliens". This provision dates back to the Act of Settlement of 1700.

There are no other residency or voting qualifications necessary to be a candidate (e.g. they do not have to be a British resident or live in the constituency). Peers or peeresses are disqualified, as are ministers of religion who have been episcopally ordained. Severe mental illness (when sectioned) is counted as a disqualification, and also disqualified are people declared bankrupt, and those who have committed a corrupt electoral practice. As a direct result of Bobby Sands being elected MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in April 1981 while on hunger strike in the H-blocks, any person now who has been sentenced to more than one year’s imprisonment is disqualified from being elected during the period in which he or she is in prison. A wide range of public office holders are disqualified. The Representation of the People Act 2000 now makes it an offence to give false declarations on the nomination paper

Does anyone know if there was a legal age of majority in England: for boys in particular, in 1700 .... and if so what was it?
Carole