legal capacity
Right to contract
Legal capacity is the ability to enter into binding agreements, make decisions, or perform legal acts.
Adults of sound mind have full legal capacity.
Minors, people with certain mental disabilities, and those under undue influence may lack capacity to sign contracts, make wills, or consent to medical treatment: The court found she lacked legal capacity when she signed the deed.
- age of majorityWhen one becomes adult
- of sound mindMentally fit for decisions
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- contractsEnforceable written agreements
- competencySufficient ability for something
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- contractsbinding contracts, contract length, lease, clause, contract terms
- litigationpleadings, lawsuit, plaintiff, complaint, lawsuits
- age limitsage limit, age requirement, age threshold, age restriction, age of majority
- legal statuscivil status, personhood, incapacity, citizenship, nationality
- marriage lawmarriage contract, divorce decree, marriage certificate, matrimony, divorce petition
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Lack of ability
lack of capacity · civil death · non compos mentis · incompetence · mental incompetence
legal capacityincompetence
Lack of required skill
mental incompetence · unsound mind · mental incapacity · minority · infancy
legal capacityguardianship
Legal care of another
conservatorship · wardship · tutelage · interdiction · disability
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