The age of majority in the rights of Iran and Egypt

Abstract

Reason is a psychological faculty that prevents a person from wasting his money and makes him spend his money in a reasonable and correct manner. This description is fundamentally different from puberty, which means physical integration and the development of sexual potency. When a person combines maturity, puberty, and reason, he is qualified and can control his money, but he who does not have one of the aforementioned descriptions is considered interdicted and cannot deal financially with others. Although it is true in Imami jurisprudence which is the source of laws in Iran, adulthood and puberty are two different concepts, and in the 1361 amendments to the Iranian Civil Code, which were made under the pretext of Shariat al-Qanun, the sign of majority was removed from the civil law and this led to Confusion between the concept of puberty and adulthood. This situation may cause many problems for the people and the courts, so that the void resulting from the deletion of the sign of majority cannot be filled by the interpretation of the doctrine, and it is necessary for the legislative authority to consider the age of 18 in the provisions of Articles 1209 and 1210 as the sign of majority.