Capacity to Contract

Capacity to contract in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of capacity to contract.

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See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Officer
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• capacity to contract in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• capacity to contract in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

English Legal System: Capacity To Contract

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Capacity To Contract : Competence to enter into a legally binding agreement. The main categories of persons lacking this capacity in full are minors, the mentally disordered, the drunk, and corporations other than those created by royal charter.

A minor is capable of making valid contracts for *necessaries and is also bound by any beneficial contract of service into which he enters (i.e. any contract of employment or training that is advantageous to him taken as a whole). Certain contracts of a proprietary nature (e.g. tenancy agreements, agreements to buy company shares, and partnership agreements) are voidable in that a minor may repudiate them either before he comes of age or within a reasonable time thereafter. If he fails to repudiate, he becomes fully bound. All other contracts made by a minor are unenforceable unless ratified by the minor when he comes of age (See ratification) unless the Minors Contracts Act 1987 applies. This Act gives the court the right to require the transfer of property acquired by a minor under a contract when it is just and equitable to do so and improves the rights of adults contracting with minors.

A contract made by a person who is mentally disordered or drunk is voidable if the other party knows that his disorder or drunkenness will prevent him from understanding what he is doing. This means that, subject to certain limitations, he can set the contract aside by *rescission.

A corporation incorporated by royal charter has full contractual capacity, but a statutory corporation has power to contract only for purposes connected with the objects for which it was incorporated. Other contracts are *ultra vires and void.

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Meaning of Capacity to contract

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Translation of Capacity to contract

• Spanish: Capacidad de contratar
• French: Capacité de contracter
• German: Geschäftsfähigkeit
• Italian: Capacità contrattuale
• Portuguese: Capacidade contratual
• Polish: Zdolność do zawierania umów

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• Type of business
• Multinational enterprise
• Joint venture
• Craft business
• Foreign enterprise
• Reintegration enterprise
• Private sector
• European undertaking
• Family business
• Sole proprietorship
• Transnational corporation
• Public sector
• Private law
• European private law

• Infancy
• Criminal liability
• Juvenile court
• Age of majority
• Criminal liability
• Capacity to exercise rights
• Capacity to contract
• Capacity to have rights and obligations