A person's authority under law to engage in a particular undertaking or maintain a particular status.
Example sentencesExamples
- It stresses the importance of involving young people even when they lack the formal legal capacity to consent.
- All departments should examine their legal capacity to ensure it is adequate in the context of changing public demands and an increasingly litigious environment.
- Well, we think it comes within matters relating to the status of the foreign corporation and its legal capacity, and the rights and liabilities of members.
- The question then arises as to whether the pleadings here are sufficient to determine the issue of legal capacity.
- They had no legal capacity to approve misappropriation by a director of the company's property.