Competence (law)

quality of natural and juridical persons necessary for their actions to have legal effect From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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In United States and Canadian law, competence is about the mental capacity of a person to take part in legal proceedings and the mental condition a person must have to be responsible for his or her decisions or acts.[1]

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