Legal Definition and Related Resources of Incapacity

Meaning of Incapacity

Want of capacity ; legal disability See Capacity.

Incapacity Alternative Definition

The want of a quality legally to do, give, transmit, or receive something. See ‘Capacity.”

Synonyms of Incapacity

noun

adynamy
anility
caducity
disability
disablement
disenablement
disqualification
dotage
failure
feebleness
helplessness
impotence
impuissance
inability
inadequacy
inaptitude
incapability
incapacitation
incompetence
incompetency
incomprehension
inefficacy
inefficiency
ineptitude
infirmity
inscitia
lack of capacity
lack of fitness
lack of power
morosis
unfitness
unproficiency
unskillfulness
weakness Associated Concepts: disability
incapacity for work
incapacity to sue
legal incapacity
mental incapacity
permanent incapacity
physical incapacity
total incapacity

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Incapacity in Law Enforcement

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

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Incapacity

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1610s, “lack of ability, powerlessness,” from French incapacité (16c.), from Medieval Latin incapacitatem (nominative incapacitas), from Late Latin incapax (genitive incapacis) “incapable,” from in- “not” (see in- (1)) + Latin capax “capable,” literally “able to hold much,” from capere “to take,” from PIE root *kap- “to grasp.” As a legal term (1640s), “lack of qualification,” referring to inability to take, receive, or deal with in some way.

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