Age of majority in Saudi laws : an epistemic study on the provisions of the Saudi Arabian laws

Abstract EN

The study can be summed up that the definition of a person is : A person or an entity that is eligible to acquire rights and assume obligations, and Majority means : The person's eligibility to acquire rights and assume obligations, Further the age of receptive legal capacity for a natural person is : The person's eligibility to establish rights for and against him or her.

Personality starts from conception, and the full receptive legal capacity requires that a person be born alive.

A person who has reached the age of eighteen years according to the Saudi laws does not have full capacity, which is called a minor, and accordingly the minor provisions for liability for action apply to him or her.

It is evident that the Saudi Legislator adopts the age of eighteen to be the age of majority because it is the age of majority considered in civil, commercial and criminal actions.