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adult One who has gained the age of majority, usually 18 or 21 depending on the state. Sometimes, younger people can take legal steps to remove the “disabilities of nonage,” after which they will be treated as legal adults even though under the requisite age. Only adults have the legal capacity to enter into contracts or sell property. Minors may own real estate, but, because of the inability to enter contracts, they cannot effectively manage it, obtain a mortgage, or sell the property. If such actions should prove necessary, the child's legal guardian will usually have to ask a court for permission for the proposed action.The court will then appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the child's interests, in case the guardian has a conflict of interest or clouded judgment. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Any attempt to produce a genetically identical human individual by nuclear substitution from a human adult or child cell ('reproductive cloning') should be prohibited"; this conclusion is reached in light of the considerations of instrumentalization and eugenics which render cloning ethically unacceptable, as well as potential safety considerations. The authors believe these results describe the highest increase in death rates for arsenic-related lung cancer and bronchiectasis ever documented among young adults, and add that this study is one of the first to provide evidence of human adult disease resulting from prenatal and early childhood exposure to any environmental toxicant. While most of City of Hope's stem cell research over the past 30 years has concentrated on human adult and non-human fetal cells, the hospital has begun studies utilizing both older federally approved human embryonic stem cell lines as well as new lines. |
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