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Record 1 2015-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

In English law, four classes of individuals are subject to some degree of personal contractual incapacity. These are minors, married women (although little or no vestige of their contractual incapacity remains), mentally disordered persons, and drunken persons.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
CONT

La capacité est l'aptitude d'une personne à être titulaire de droits et à les exercer. Cette notion doit être appliquée à la possibilité de contracter. Un incapable, à ce point de vue, sera donc une personne à laquelle la loi ne reconnaît pas la faculté de passer valablement un contrat. L'incapacité de contracter doit d'ailleurs être distinguée de notions voisines avec lesquelles il importe de ne pas la confondre.

Spanish

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