Disability
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. dishabilitas, disabilitas.] Incapacity to do a legal act, as to enter upon lands, to inherit or convey, to sue or be sued, &c., arising from the peculiar condition of a person, as from infancy, coverture, lunacy, alienage, imprisonment, or absence. Termes de la ley.
Cowell. Blount.
Angell on Limit. cc.
19, 36. 2 Hilliard's Real Prop. 169, et seq.
U. S. Digest, Limitations of actions, IV. Id. Supplement, h. t.
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