Legal capacity

Legal capacity is understood to mean a person's power to exercise his or her rights.

Government legal capacity (democratic legal and judiciary reforms)

EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW WITH RESPECT TO LEGAL CAPACITY

Equal civil legal capacity

13.2 Legal capacity of women

And under the law, we can have her declared incompetent.

Any citizen has the right to bring the same case before the proper courts which rule in first instance (trial court).

2. The failure of States to accord appropriate legal status, appropriate juridical capacity and other legal rights

In the Niger, the legal capacity of both men and women is recognized by law.

ARTICLE 15 Legal Capacity and Domicile

To create or join associations

Other cults acquire legal capacity in private law.

Enhanced law making and oversight capacity of the legislature ___________

117. No law may have retroactive force or effect, except in criminal matters where the law favours the defendant a law may be repealed only by another law.

Those efforts will further strengthen the capacity of our legal system.

Only the force of law could vanquish barbarity.

Implementation of the legal reforms and the capacity of the Burundian administration of justice

One important element of this is legal and judicial capacity building.

338. On the issue of trusteeship In our legal framework the husband is, as a matter of law, the legal guardian of a wife subject to judicial disability, but in the case of a husband subject to judicial disability the wife is not, as a matter of law, his legal guardian, although she may be named such in the manner and under the conditions of administration decided upon by the family council.

Recommendation 5 General legal capacity in other United Nations departments and offices

Article 216 of the Civil Code provides that A married woman has full legal capacity.

States Parties agree that all contracts and all other private instruments of any kind with a legal effect which is directed at restricting the legal capacity of women shall be deemed null and void.

(b) Capacity building for strengthening legal institutions, including improving the quality of judges, prosecutors, lawyers and court staff

I worked as a Legal Adviser to the Vice Prime Minister and Human Rights Minister in Kinshasa.

(c) Strengthening national institutions (including legal frameworks) and the capacity of practitioners, e.g., judges, lawyers and major groups.

A legal framework could also contain a combination of legally binding and non binding elements.

Women have a legal capacity equal to men and have the same opportunities to exercise that capacity.

The Laws in Bosnia and Herzegovina do not limit the legal capability of women to sign contracts, nor the right of women to ownership and management of property, just like they do not limit the legal capability of women to represent their interests before court.

Recommendations by monitoring bodies, however, could not be legally binding.

The persons concerned acquire full capacity to undertake legal transactions.

(iii) Both parents lack full capacity to carry out legal transactions

States Parties agree that all contracts and all other private instruments of any kind with a legal effect, which is directed at restricting the legal capacity of women shall be deemed null and void.

States parties agree that all contracts and all other private instruments of any kind with a legal effect which is directed at restricting the legal capacity of women shall be deemed null and void.

States Parties shall accord to men and women the same rights with regard to the law relating to the movement of persons and the freedom to choose their residence and domicile.

sic States Parties agree that all contracts and all other private instruments of any kind with a legal effect which is directed at restricting the legal capacity of women shall be deemed null and void.

3. States Parties agree that all contracts and all other private instruments of any kind with a legal effect which is directed at restricting the legal capacity of women shall be deemed null and void.

The State party argued that legal representation is not obligatory and that the author as a person enjoying full capacity for legal deeds could successfully plead her case before the courts by herself. In this context, it referred to the decision of the Supreme Court of 21 April 1999, which held that, in the circumstances of the case, a lawyer was not necessary as the author enjoyed full capacity of legal deeds and mental illness cannot be equated to a lack of legal capacity.

13.3 Invalidity of contracts limiting the legal capacity of women

Full and limited capacity to undertake legal transactions is distinguished.

He she acquires political rights (first of all active electoral rights) and full capacity to undertake legal transactions, which means the capacity to bring about legal effects by one apos s own behaviour, that is to acquire rights and contract obligations (Civil Code).

Legal and technical assistance to such States would enable them to develop the administrative machinery to participate in mutual legal assistance and information sharing.

Hence, the financial performance can not be compared with the past years.

EC 46 SC CRP.31 UNHCR apos s Role in National Legal and Judicial Capacity Building

Enhancing laws on combating arms, explosives, and drugs smuggling, money laundering, and improving the capacities of law enforcement agencies, including judicial authorities, to implement those laws.