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Definition :

Capacity, a legally conferred power to affect the rights of oneself and other persons to whom the exercise of the capacity is directed, subject to certain generally and legally defined limits - limits which vary in relation to each particular form of capacity. Capacity in this form is an incident of status, Sri Mahalinga Thambiran Swamigal v. His Holiness Sri La Sri Kasivasi Arulnandi Thambiram Swamigal, (1974) 2 SCR 74: (1974) 1 SCC 150: AIR 1974 SC 199 (206).

The role in which one performs an act, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

Capacity, is being used in the sense of legal competence or status to bring or defend a claim, Haq v. Singh , (2001) 1 WLR 1594 (CA).