legal capacity in English

noun
1
a person's authority under law to engage in a particular undertaking or maintain a particular status.
They had no legal capacity to approve misappropriation by a director of the company's property.

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1. Accordingly, the Board invited Parties to confer legal capacity to, and to host, the Adaptation Fund Board.

2. Attainder: Under English common law, the state of having lost one's legal and civil personhood, as through losing the legal capacity to own or pass on property.

3. Secondly, with regard to paragraph # of article # we believe that the term “legal capacity” should allow for a flexible interpretation, bearing in mind the differences in national legal systems

4. Secondly, with regard to paragraph 2 of article 12, we believe that the term “legal capacity” should allow for a flexible interpretation, bearing in mind the differences in national legal systems.

5. Any concurrent injury (for example, Arthrolith, anterior cruciate ligament rupture, meniscus tear) of the target knee requiring surgical intervention; OA or any pre-existing cartilage damage in the target knee, as revealed by MRI; Legal incapacity or limited legal capacity; Subjects who are imprisoned or institutionalized by regulatory or court

6. In the present case, on account of her status as an adulterine child, Ms Merger had had no legal capacity to receive lifetime or testamentary gifts from her father to the value of more than half the share of the estate to which she would have been entitled if she had been a legitimate child.