VYAVASTHA'_IDARPANA. 557 tinguished (from an adolescent). Another is also distinguished, called a young infant (euma-ra) to the commencement of his fifth year; agreeably to the same text cited by Raghunandana, infancy extends to the fifth year. The use of this distinction regards penance or expiation and the like. But here minority must be taken to the end of the sifteenth year; and this must be understood of a computation by vulgar or su'rana time from the day of his birth. Afterwards he is adult or competent to (manage) assairs.” 238 A minor is incompetent to do any civil act : such, if done by him, is void and revocable.t I. ‘A contract made by a person intoxicated, or insane, or grievously disordered, or wholly dependent, by an infant, or a deerepit old man, or (in the name of another) by a person without authority, is utterly mull. MANU. Coleb. Dig. vol. II. p. 103. TI. ‘A contract made by a person intoxicated, or insane, or grievously disordered, or disabled, by an infant, or a man agitated by fear or the like, or (in the name of another) by a person without authority, is utterly null. JA oxy AVALRYA. Ibit/. p. 193. III. “What is given by a person in wrath or excessive joy, or through inadvertence, or during disease, minority, or mulness, or under the impulse of terror, or by one intoxicated or extremely old, or by an outcast or an idiot, or by a man afflicted with grief or with pain, or what is given in sport; all this is declared ungiven, or void. VRIII Aspari. Ibid, 197. IV. What has beem given by men agitated with sear, anger, lust, grief, or (the pain of ) an incurable disease, or as a bribe, or injest, or by mistake, or through any fraudulent practice must be considered as ungiven; so must any thing given by a minor, an idiot, a (slave or, other) person not his own master, a diseased man, one insane, or intoxicated, or in consideration of work unperformed. NA RADA. Ibid. p. 181.
- * Mr. Colebrooke says —“The distinctions may be thus recapitulated: a minor (hila) is in carly infancy to the end of his fourth year, and called cuma'ra ; in law he is an infant to the end of his seventh year, and in this period of his life is called shishu ; he is called a boy (poganda) from his th theend it his ninth year; and his adolescence as kiskora continues from the tenth to the end of the fifteenth year.
Dig. vol. I. p. 300. † Aceording to NA RADA and n:any other authorities a minor can mcither be arrested, nor summoned to answer a suit; and a trial in which a minor is plaintiff, or defendant, is pronounced to be wrong. Colebrooke's remarks. Vide Strange's H. L. vol. II. p. 210. Vyavasth:ì Autlıộrities
