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Puberty

The age of fourteen In males and twelve in females, when they are held fit for, and capable of contracting, marriage, otherwise called the “age of consent to marriage.” 1 Bl. Comm. 436; 2 Kent, Comm. 78. See State v. Pierson, 44 Ark. 265

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)