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proof-reader, but does not include any such person who- (i) is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity, or (ii) being employed in a supervisory capacity per-forms, either by the nature of the duties attached to

Disability

SC 1719 (1722). Means where the disablement is of a temporary nature, such disablement as reduces the earning capacity of a woman in any employment in which he was engaged at the time of the accident resulting

Drawer

bill of exchange and addressing it to the drawee. By the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 21, capacity to draw is co-extensive with capacity to contract (except that a corporation is not, by virtue of that

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Property

is the basic item that goes to make the same. Property thus in law, is both, corpus and capacity, Hirabai v. Babu Maniva Ingale, 1980 Bom CR 451. Property, is extended to all those recognised types of

Corporation

by law having a legal entity entirely separate and distinct from the individuals who compose it with the capacity of continuous existence and succession, notwithstanding changes in its membership. In addition, it possesses the capacity as such

Dissolubility

The quality of being dissoluble capacity of being dissoluble capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture and converted into a fluid

contract

Uniform Commercial Code in the Important Laws section NOTE: Contracts must be made by parties with the necessary capacity (as age or mental soundness) and must have a lawful, not criminal, object. Except in Louisiana, a valid

Cannot

3rd Edn., at page 255, the word 'can' is defined as 'to be able; to have power or capacity'. The word 'cannot', therefore, would mean 'not to be able' or 'not to have the power or capacity'.

defense

the defendant's opposition see also accord, alibi, assumption of risk, coercion, consent contributory negligence at negligence, denial, diminished capacity, duress, entrapment, estoppel, fraud, infancy, insanity, intoxication, laches, mistake, necessity, res judicata, statute of limitations absolute defense :

nonability

nonability pl: -ties : lack of legal capacity ;also : a plea or exception raising lack of legal capacity

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