Commentary for Yevamot 159:12

אמר ליה אביי מקטנותה יצתה לבגר

ate forbidden fat,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Or committed any other transgression. The eating of forbidden fat, [H] is invariably taken as the example of a punishable offence. Cf. Golds. a.l. ');">³²</span> and after the marks of a saris had appeared, he grew two hairs.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The marks of puberty. ');">³³</span> Rab ruled that the person is deemed to be a saris retrospectively.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From the age of twelve years and one day. Despite the absence of the hairs until after the age of eighteen. and their subsequent appearance. the girl is regarded as having passed into her majority at the earlier age of twelve years and one day. and consequently subject from that time to all legal penalties, the delay in the emergence of her marks of puberty being attributed to her mere impotence. ');">³⁴</span>

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