Capacity To Contract The legal ability to enter into a binding contract.
Capacity may also refer to
Capacity (economics), the point of production at which a firm or industry's average (or "per-unit") costs begin to rise, usually because some factor is fixed (often capital or land).
Diminished Capacity
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Cube (Cubic Capacity): Interior volume of a truck body, semitrailer or trailer, measured in cubic feet.
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Testamentary capacity - The legal ability to make a will.
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Capacity -Having legal authority or mental ability. Being of sound mind.
Caption -Heading or introductory party of a pleading.
Capacity Defense: Broadly, describes a defendant's lack of some fundamental ability to be held accountable. For example, in Pennsylvania, persons under 7 years of age are presumed incapable of negligence.
CAPACITY. This word, in the law sense, denotes some ability, power, qualifi- cation, or competency of persons, natural, or artificial, for the performance of civil acts, depending on their state or condition, as defined or fixed by law; as, ...
capacity pl: -ties 1 : a qualification, power, or ability (as to give consent or make a testament) created by operation of law 2 : an individual's ability or aptitude ;esp : mental ability as it relates to ...
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capacity Legal capacity is the attribute of a person who can acquire new rights, or transfer rights, or assume duties according to the dictates of his or her own will, without any restraint or hindrance arising from status or legal condition.
CAPACITY : The ability recognized by law to take legal action.
CAPIAS(Latin): A class of writs that authorize a court officer to take a defendant into custody, or in other words, to arrest him/her.
capacity
The ability to understand and give legal consent to an action or arrangement.
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incapacity
adj. 1) not being able to perform any gainful employment due to congenital disability, illness (including mental), physical injury, advanced age or intellectual deficiency.
Incapacity
Lack of sufficient legal, physical or intellectual power to perform an act.
Incompetency
The inability or incapacity at law to perform an act, such as giving testimony or making a will.
Incapacity
(1) A lack of physical or mental abilities that results in a person's inability to manage his or her own personal care, property or finances.
field capacity : The maximum amount of water that a soil can retain after excess water from saturated conditions has been drained by the force of gravity.
Term: Incapacity
Definition: Lack of sufficient legal, physical or intellectual power to perform an act.
Term: Incompetency
Definition: The inability or incapacity at law to perform an act, such as giving testimony or making a will.
Capacity
Definition - Noun
1 : a qualification, power, or ability (as to give consent or make a testament) created by operation of law
2 : an individual's ability or aptitude
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diminished capacity
n. essentially a psychological term which has found its way into criminal trials.
Testamentary Capacity: The legal ability to make a will.
Testamentary Trust: A trust set up by a will.
Expanded Legal Definition of PanhandleParalegal A person who is not a lawyer or is not acting in that capacity but who provides a limited number of legal services.
Paralegal A person who is not a lawyer or is not acting in that capacity but who provides a limited number of legal services. Each country differs in the authority it gives paralegals in exercising what traditionally would be lawyers' work.
Ordinary powers of attorney become invalid upon the principal’s death or mental incapacity.
recognition as an independent country and which have four characteristics; permanent and large population with, generally, a common language; a defined and distinct territory; a sovereign government with effective control; and a capacity to enter ...
Consent and Capacity BoardIndependent provincial tribunal that makes decisions about matters of capacity, consent, civil committal and substitute decision making under statutes including the Health Care Consent Act, ...
is impaired by reason of mental illness, mental deficiency, physical illness or disability, advanced age, chronic use of drugs, chronic intoxication, or other cause (except minority) to the extent that he lacks sufficient understanding or capacity to ...
Individuals are persons in law unless they are minors or under some other type of incapacity, such as a court finding of mental incapacity. Contrast with a company, which is a legal person.
Negligence: Carelessness.
Sir Eardley-Wilmot said that the offence of libelling judges in their judicial capacity is the most proper case for an attachment, for the "arraignment of the justice of the judges is arraigning the king's justice; ...
Thus, in a suit for physical injuries the plaintiff may seek recovery for the pain he endured and his accrued medical expenses and for probable loss of earnings due to disability during the period of his incapacity.
In that capacity, the AO prepares and submits the budget and legislative agenda for the courts to the Judicial Conference for transmittal to Congress.
Competent, Adult (Sui Juris) Parties: Both parties must have the capacity to understand the terms of the contract they are entering into, and the consequences of the promises they make.
The incapacity may be mental (i.e., Alzheimer's disease) or physical (i.e., the effects of a stroke). When a person has a guardian appointed, the person is often referred to as "incapacitated.
KILDERKIN
A measure of capacity equal to eighteen gallons. See Measure. ... more
KINDRED
Relations by blood.2. Nature has divided the kindred of every one into three principal classes. 1. His children, and their descendants. 2. His father,... more ...
Also known as a Residual Functional Capacity form, filled out by your Primary Treating Physician, is a very important component of your case for receiving Social Security benefits
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SUI JURIS
A person who possesses full civil rights and is not under any legal incapacity such as being bankrupt, of minor age or mental incapacity. Most adults are sui juris.
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A legal document that takes effect if one cannot make decisions due to illness or incapacity. Different types of advance directives exist. Some, such a living will, give instructions on which measures can be used to prolong life.
criminal insanity - Lack of mental capacity to do or abstain from doing a particular act; inability to distinguish right from wrong.
criminal summons - An order commanding an accused to appear in court.
An evaluation of a person's history or capacity of debt repayment.
Curb Appeal
The attractiveness of a property's exterior when viewed from the street. The first impression a property makes.
When you're ready to think about the possibility of death or incapacity, creating a Will and an estate plan is the best way to take care of your family. Even if you don't have a lot to pass on, it will be easier on everyone if your wishes are known.
Elder law includes general estate planning issues, counseling and planning for incapacity with alternative decision making documents, and planning for possible long-term care needs, including nursing home care.
*minor - a person over the age of puberty (cf. impubes) but under the age of 25. If sui iuris they had full legal capacity, ...
Attorney in Fact - The attorney acting in a fiduciary capacity under a "power of attorney." See POWER OF ATTORNEY.
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judicial hearing officer (JHO): a person who has served as a judge or justice of a court of record of the Unified Court System, and who no longer is serving in such capacity, ...
Register tonnage refers to the gross tonnage on the ship's registry certificate, for example. Deadweight tonnage is the cargo carrying capacity of the ship. Other measurements of tonnage are also included in maritime law.
Court-Appointed Attorney: An attorney who is asked by the court (judge) to either represent a party to the case, or to serve in some other capacity that the case requires.
See further Descent. Capax. Latin. Receiving or containing: able, fit for; having capacity. Capax doli. Competent to intend wrong, to commit a crime. Doli incapax. Incapable of committing crime.
annulment ("nullity of marriage"): A legal action that says your marriage was never legally valid because of unsound mind, incest, bigamy, being too young to consent, fraud, force, or physical incapacity.
Ginnie Mac (GNMA)
Government National Mortgage Association. A federal association working with FHA which offers special assistance in obtaining mortgages, and purchases mortgages in a secondary capacity.
The Lord Chancellor was also head of the judiciary and the senior judge of the House of Lords in its judicial capacity.
The traditional fault grounds for divorce are adultery, cruelty, desertion, confinement in prison, physical incapacity and incurable insanity. These grounds are also generally referred to as marital misconduct.
Some criteria traditionally considered include: a defined territory, a permanent population, a government recognized by that population, the capacity to enter into relations with other states, and recognition by other states.
These are usually very large organisations with the capacity to meet the expense of running their own workers' compensation schemes under the relevant workers' compensation legislation in Queensland.
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