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legal capacity

legal capacity noun: the ability of a person to make binding amendments to their rights, duties and obligations, such as getting married or merging, entering into contracts, making gifts, or writing a valid will.

Noun

legal capacity (countable and uncountable, plural legal capacities)

  1. The ability of a person to make binding amendments to their rights, duties and obligations, such as getting married or merging, entering into contracts, making gifts, or writing a valid will.
    • The petition asks that the Supreme Court determine whether […] a disabled person has the right to be represented by the legal counsel of her choice in court proceedings that determine her legal capacity.1986 February 15, Stephanie Poggi, “Disabled Rights Issues Raised in Kowalski Case”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 1

legal capacity meaning in Tamil

legal capacity in Tamil

சட்டத்திறம், சட்டம்சார் தகுதி

Forms of legal capacity

plurallegal capacities

Questions about legal capacity

What does legal capacity mean?
Legal capacity means the ability of a person to make binding amendments to their rights, duties and obligations, such as getting married or merging, entering into contracts, making gifts, or writing a valid will.
What is legal capacity in Tamil?
Legal capacity in Tamil is சட்டத்திறம், சட்டம்சார் தகுதி. See Legal capacity meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is legal capacity?
Legal capacity is a noun.
What is the plural of legal capacity?
The plural of legal capacity is legal capacities.

Words near legal capacity in the dictionary

  1. legal beagle
  2. legal beagles
  3. legal blindness
  4. legal cap
  5. legal capacities
  6. legal capacity
  7. legal certainty
  8. legal chemistry
  9. legal code
  10. legal codes
  11. legal consequence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: legal capacity (page history and authors); legal capacity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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