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legal capacity
legal capacity In this historical medico-legal sense, legal capacity means whether a person with alleged mental disorder was able to understand the specific act in question and able to do it or refrain from doing it.
In this historical medico-legal sense, legal capacity means whether a person with alleged mental disorder was able to understand the specific act in question and able to do it or refrain from doing it. It depends on both the nature of the act and the person’s power of understanding and self-control in relation to that act.