Page boy (wedding attendant) Page boy (wedding attendant) A page boy is a young male attendant at a wedding or cotillion, a social dance. This type of wedding attendant is less common than it used to be, but is still a way of including young relatives or the children of relatives and friends in a wedding. A page is often seen at British royal weddings. There may be many pages for effect at cotillions. Traditionally, page boys carry the bride's train, especially if the bride is wearing a dress with a long train. Because of the difficulty of managing the train, page boys are
Attendant circumstance Attendant circumstance In law, attendant circumstances (sometimes external circumstances) are the facts surrounding an event. In the criminal law in the United States, the definition of a given offense generally includes up to three kinds of "elements": the actus reus, or guilty conduct; the mens rea, or guilty mental state; and the attendant (sometimes "external") circumstances. The reason is given in "Powell v. Texas", 392 U.S. 514, 533 (1968): The burden of proof is on the prosecution to prove each "element of the offense" in order for a defendant to be found guilty. The Model Penal Code §1.13(9) offers the