Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a classic work of Shakespeare. It serves of a historical example of controversial disapproved of love with a tragic ending rooted in the anguish lovers feel at one another's loss. Some like to point out that Juliet was 14 or something. The term is used in law sometimes to refer to age differential exemptions to statutory rape prosecution, like if they are under X years apart then the law looks the other way. Like most laws, something that varies a lot on locality such as state law.