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Definition of Incapacity
1. Noun. Lack of intellectual power.
2. Noun. Lack of physical or natural qualifications.
Definition of Incapacity
1. n. Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.
Definition of Incapacity
1. Noun. The lack of a capacity; an inability ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incapacity
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Medical Definition of Incapacity
1. Origin: Cf. F. Incapacite. 1. Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability. 2. Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc. Synonym: Inability, incapability, incompetency, unfitness, disqualification, disability. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incapacity
Literary usage of Incapacity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps (1822)
"By devisee of years (1), or by reason of mental incapacity, whether proceed- "''.''° '
ing from idiotcy or non-sane memory (1) ; or that the will was ..."
2. Oecd Economic Surveys: United Kingdom by OECD. (2005)
"... people could be helped back to work via active support from the Pathways to
Worf e programme and encouragement from a restructured incapacity benefit. ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(iv) Mental incapacity.—A fourth incapacity is want of reason;9 without a competent
share of which, as no other, so neither can the matrimonial contract, ..."
4. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in Its Relation to by William Reynell Anson (1906)
"incapacity for personal service discharges contract. ... Of course the parties
might expressly contract that incapacity should not excuse, and thus preclude ..."
5. The Law of Contracts by Theophilus Parsons (1883)
"If, therefore, a party rests his action or his defence upon the in- competency
or incapacity of himself or of the other party, this must be proved, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Domestic Relations by William Champ Rodgers (1899)
"the woman at the time of the marriage by a stranger would be a physical incapacity
if unknown to the man. If, however, with such knowledge, he nevertheless ..."
7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"It may be based upon age, which being fixed at a minimum of sixty-two years.by rio
means implies such incapacity. It may be based upon wounds received in ..."
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