Incapacity
It refers to the inability of entering into a contract or agreement of any kind due to absence of competence and qualification. For eg.
incapacity - Those who are needy and poor, or those who have not sufficient property to furnish a living nor anyone able to support them to whom they are entitled to look for support.
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Incapacity - Lack of legal ability to act; disability, incompetence; lack of adequate power.
Incarceration - Imprisonment in a jail or penitentiary.
incapacity - Refers to a person's inability to manage his or her own personal care, property or finances due to a lack of physical or mental abilities.
Incarceration - Imprisonment in a jail or penitentiary.
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. The want of a quality legally to do, give, transmit, or receive something.
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.
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.
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Individuals are "persons" in law unless they are minors or under some kind of other incapacity such as a court finding of mental incapacity.
Ordinary powers of attorney become invalid upon the principal’s death or mental incapacity.
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.
Illegal practices are offences punishable on summary conviction with a fine not exceeding £ioo, and with five years' incapacity for being registered or voting as a parliamentary elector, ...
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.
When a change of condition, or of state, produces an incapacity in either party; as, if the principal, being a woman, marry, this would be a revocation, ...
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.
2 a : a person who by reason of incapacity (as minority or incompetency) is under the control of a guardian ...
This definition includes not only individuals, who are "persons" in law unless they are minors or under some kind of other incapacity such as a court finding of mental incapacity but also includes business organizations that have been formally ...
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.
the condition of lacking the ability to handle one's affairs due to mental or physical incapacity.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, mental incapacity was known as lunacy and the person so afflicted, as a lunatic. Thus, the body of law was lunacy law and there were even lunacy court and lunacy judges.
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.
Used in a physical sense in connection with workers' compensation acts and is a composite of (a) actual incapacity to perform employment tasks and the wage loss resulting therefrom and (b) physical bodily impairment which may or may not be ...
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.
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.
presumption grows weaker as the child nears his or her 14th birthday. Minors over 14 are presumptively capable of negligence. Simply put, under the law they are presumed as being able to commit torts. The burden is on the minor to prove incapacity.
 See also: Law, Capacity, Person, State, Court
  
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