VI. Homo Sapien Life
6.4 Homo Sapien Youth
Article 121 - Competence of Youth
Competence of a Youth is defined according to both the concept of whether a Youth is fit, proper and qualified to produce and argue Reason through knowledge and skill of Law, Logic and Rhetoric against opposing arguments and secondly whether a Youth possesses sufficient authority and qualification of standing within the limits of statutes of law.
As Youth have developed some of the necessary tools of cognition required for mental competence from the age of seven (7) years, not all the necessary tools are completed until the age of nineteen (19) years and above. Therefore, a Youth may only ever be presumed conditionally mentally competent until tested to establish if such presumption is correct.
Given all Youth are legally competent, but presumed conditionally mentally competent, it is permitted to claim a Youth as party to any form of bilateral or trilateral consensus including but not limited to any claimed agreement, pact, pledge, promise, deed, covenant or treaty. However, it is strictly forbidden to claim a youth to be party to any unilateral consensus.