legal incapacity

Legal incapacity is an invasive and sometimes, difficult legal procedure.

Sometimes such legal incapacity is referred to as incompetence.

It is the concept in this popular notion of psychosocial incapacity that forms the basis for the idea of legal incapacity.

Persons eligible to vote were to be British subjects of "full age" (21 years) and "not subject to any legal incapacity to vote", provided that they were registered to vote in the constituency.

Infants are not bound by many otherwise valid contracts, and their intention is irrelevant because of the legal incapacity imposed on them by the state of the domicile (the lex domicilii) or nationality (the lex patriae).

It seems that a similar test might be applicable to international legal incapacity; where a prior treaty is well-known and public, a third party can be expected to be aware of any limitations upon the capacity of a treaty member to enter into a treaty with itself.

All Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland are entitled to vote if they are 18, are resident in a parliamentary constituency on the qualifying date, and are not subject to any legal incapacity and appear in the appropriate register of electors.