Search the Dictionary

To deprive of legal or constitutional requisites, or of ability or competency for the performance of certain civil acts; to disqualify. It absolutely incapacitated them from holding rank, office, function, or property. Milman.

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.

Want of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as a juror, or of a judge to try a cause.

Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence. Richard III. had a resolution, out of hatred to his brethren, to disable their issues, upon false and incompetent pretexts,…

To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc.

United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity.

s, an indefeasible or title. That the king had a divine and an indefeasible right to the regal power. Macaulay.

A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor.

To contaminate with illegality or to expo

Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.

Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent.

f being informal; want of regular, prescribed, or customary form; as, the informality of legal proceedings.

The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy.

One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident.

party (Law),a party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality.

e plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n. They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy. Burke. To make the Stoics' institutes thy own. Dryden.…

The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument.

terchanged friendly offices and services. I shall interchange My waned state for Henry's regal crown. Shak.

Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.

An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority.