The Age of Maturity and the Age of Menopause
At what age is maturity reckoned when its signs have not appeared, and at what age does a woman reach menopause so that the rulings of menstruation cease?
Maturity is reckoned at the completion of fifteen years for male and female alike, and the age of menopause is the completion of fifty-five years.
Maturity is reckoned at the completion of eighteen years for male and female alike; the age of menopause is not fixed by a set number but referred to the custom of women, and beyond seventy it is menopause beyond doubt.
Maturity is reckoned at the completion of fifteen lunar years for male and female alike; as for menstruation, there is no limit to the last age at which it occurs, and the age of menopause, by what is usual, is sixty-two years.
Maturity is reckoned at the completion of fifteen years for male and female alike, and the age of menopause is the completion of fifty years; whatever blood she sees after that is irregular bleeding, not menstruation.