The Age of Legal Capacity Act of 1954 is an Act of the Grand Washingtonian Assembly which set the Washingtonian age of majority (including the age of consent), known as the "age of legal capacity" locally, at the age of 16. Prior to the Act, the age of legal capacity was 18 years as decided in the pre-constitutional Court of Common Pleas case Paternaude vs. Travert, CP.
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