The legal age of marriage would be lowered to puberty, as in the Prophet's time.
Chinese officials provided the Olympic committee with passports, showing that team members were of legal age, but numerous challenges have been made.
The legal age to marry in Texas is 16 with parental consent.
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The legal age for buying handguns in the United States is 18.
The legal age for buying cigarettes was set prior to World War II, long before the health threats posed by tobacco were recognised.
The report suggests raising the legal age for any kind of wagering to 21 and taxing gambling revenues to pay for programmes to treat problem gamblers.
Following the botched attempt to free him, Wade was transferred to a county jail, as scheduled, because he had reached the legal age for adult incarceration.
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"In Bangladesh, the legal age for marriage is 18 for girls and 21 for boys, so there's nothing wrong with the law, it's in the implementation, " says Hall.
Invoking the heavy hand of the law does not serve justice (for instance, there is a great deal of diversity around the world about what constitutes the legal age of consent).
The gunman, who had no criminal record, obtained a license for the weapon on October 19, four months after his 18th birthday -- the legal age limit for owning a firearm in Finland.
If your kids are young, your spouse will have the hassle of accounting for the kids' funds separately and the worry of what the darlings will do with the money when they come of legal age.
According to La Repubblica, a newspaper, the prosecutors have a statement in which she claims she told the 74-year-old Mr Berlusconi she was under the age of 18, the legal minimum age for prostitution in Italy.
He won the event the day after turning 19, the legal drinking age in Ontario.
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Some political parties, including Labour in Britain, have suggested that the legal voting age should fall to 16.
The 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) set the legal minimum age for military recruitment at 15.
At the same time, we would certainly encourage and expect factory management to offer to replace an existing underage worker with a legal-age family member.
As transport secretary in the early 1980s, Mrs Dole hit on the idea of linking federal highway grants to raising the legal drinking age to 21.
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In a statement, the Taiwan-based manufacturer acknowledged that some students who took part in its summer internship programme were below China's minimum legal working age of 16.
The country's legal minimum age for marriage was 15 till a decade ago, when the law was changed to allow for children even younger to be wed.
When Martine Aubry, the Socialist leader, hinted that it might be necessary to raise the legal retirement age to 61 or 62, she was shouted down by her own party.
The Spanish have proved especially feeble, with ministers twice proposing and then swiftly backtracking on reforms, once over a rise in the legal pension age, and once over public-sector pay cuts.
Recently, Provence and her younger brother couch-surfed in Costa Rica, where they stayed with a tavern owner, a lucky break for her brother, who discovered that he was of legal drinking age there.
"I am willing to bet Justice Souter had never seen a file-sharing application, " said Tushnet, who is also an expert on cyber-age legal issues.
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The only reason the jusde sentenced me was because she was legally 3 weeks under the age of 17 which is the age of legal consent for sexual contact under Missouri law.
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Shortly afterwards, his government said that it would make it legal to work until the age of 70.
Mr Sawyer, who was deputy chief constable of the force at the time, admitted A19 was "indirectly discriminatory" on grounds of age and that legal advice was taken to make sure its use was "justified".
At present, employers can get rid of older workers once they reach the mandatory retirement age without fear of legal redress.
Perhaps age, tax status, legal or not immigrant, using the right social security number and so on.
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