CAPACITY

Legal capacity is the attribute of a person who can acquire new rights, or transfer rights, or a ume duties, according to the mere dictates of his own will, as manifested in juristic acts, withou~ any restraint or hindrance arising from his statUB or legal condition. ~:bility; qualification; legal power or right. Applied in this sense to the attribute ot per-· sons (natural or artificial) growing out of.their sta,tus or juristic condition, which enables them to perform civil acts; as capacity to hold,lands, capacity to devise, etc. Burgett v. Barrick, 25 Kan. 530; Sargent v. Bur- · dett, 96 Ga. 111, 22 s. E. 667. CAPAX DOLi. Lat.. Capable of committing crime, or capable of crlminal intent. The phrase describes the condition of one who has sufficient intelligence ·and comprehension to be held criminally responsible for his deeds. [s. 172]