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  1. $Title{Table 6.: Legal Status Through Life}
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  3. __________________________________________________________________
  4. Age                Status
  5. __________________________________________________________________
  6. Birth              Initial legal status, tax payable on fortune.
  7. __________________________________________________________________
  8. 6-15 years         Obligatory school attendance varying in length
  9.                    according to canton.
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  11. 15 years           Minimum age for employment.
  12. __________________________________________________________________
  13. 16 years           Religious majority.
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  15. 18 years           May make a will. Women marriageable. Social
  16.                    security payments obligatory.
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  18. 20 years           Capacity to take legal action and liability.
  19.                    Voting rights (in some cantons at 18 or 19).
  20.                    Men marriageable and liable to military
  21.                    service. Eligibility for election to House of
  22.                    Representatives and government.
  23. __________________________________________________________________
  24. 42 years           End of obligatory target practice.
  25. __________________________________________________________________
  26. 50 years           End of obligatory military service.
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  28. 60 years           Formerly end of obligation to vote in those
  29.                    cantons where voting was obligatory. (It is
  30.                    now only obligatory in the canton of
  31.                    Schaffhausen).
  32. __________________________________________________________________
  33. 62 years           Women eligible for state pension.
  34. __________________________________________________________________
  35. 65 years           General retirement age. Men eligible for state
  36.                    pension.
  37. __________________________________________________________________
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