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Tag: Legal capacity

  • Capacity to Exercise Rights

    Hierarchical Display of Capacity to exercise rights Law > Civil law > Civil law > Legal status > Legal capacity Meaning of Capacity to exercise rights Overview and more information about Capacity to exercise rights For a more comprehensive understanding of Capacity to exercise rights, see […]

  • Capacity to Have Rights and Obligations

    Hierarchical Display of Capacity to have rights and obligations Law > Civil law > Civil law > Legal status > Legal capacity Meaning of Capacity to have rights and obligations Overview and more information about Capacity to have rights and obligations For a more comprehensive understanding […]

  • Criminal Liability

    Hierarchical Display of Criminal liability Law > Criminal lawEnvironment > Environmental policy > Environmental policy > Environmental law > Environmental liabilityLaw > Justice > Legal action > Criminal proceedingsLaw > Criminal law > Offence > ComplicityLaw > Civil law > […]

  • Juvenile Court

    A court having special jurisdiction of a paternal nature over delinquent and neglected children. The jurisdiction of such a court is purely statutory. Such a court is not strictly a criminal court in the usual sense since its purpose is not that of punishment of the juvenile but the […]

  • Age of majority

    The chronological age at which a person ceases to be a minor, and, subject to whatever legal disabilities minority carries with it (e.g., inability to vote, to drink intoxicating liquors, to drive on the public highways, to make valid contracts, conveyances and wills) while […]

  • Capacity to Contract

    Capacity to contract in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of capacity to contract.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Officer Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading […]

  • Capacity to Contract

    Capacity to contract in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of capacity to contract.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Officer Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading […]

  • Infancy

    Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Infancy (You may find infancy at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). late 14c., “condition of babyhood,” also “childhood, youth,” from Anglo-French enfaunce and directly from Latin infantia “early […]