Capacity
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[Lat. capacitas, from capax, able to take.] Strictly, ability to take. The legal ability or power of an individual or corporation to do certain acts, as to give or take lands or other things; or to bring actions, <fec.* 2 Bl. Com. 290. Termes de la ley.
Cowell.
See Story's Coafl. Laws, ch. iv.