2. (Law) A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the
age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a
minor.
An infant under seven years of age is not penally responsible; between
seven and fourteen years of age, he may be convicted of a malicious
offense if malice be proved. He becomes of age on the day preceding his
twenty-first birthday, previous to which time an infant has no capacity
to contract.