A person's authority under law to engage in a particular undertaking or maintain a particular status.
法定资格，法定身份
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.
Definition of legal capacity in US English:
legal capacity
nounˈlēɡəl kəˈpasədē
A person's authority under law to engage in a particular undertaking or maintain a particular status.
法定资格，法定身份
Example sentencesExamples
They had no legal capacity to approve misappropriation by a director of the company's property.
All departments should examine their legal capacity to ensure it is adequate in the context of changing public demands and an increasingly litigious environment.
It stresses the importance of involving young people even when they lack the formal legal capacity to consent.
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.