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  2. Individual capacity - Wikipedia

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    In law, individual capacity is a term of art referring to one's status as a natural person, distinct from any other role. [ 1 ] For example, an officer , employee or agent of a corporation , acting "in their individual capacity" is acting as an individual, rather than as an agent of the corporation.

  3. Capacity in English law - Wikipedia

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    Capacity in English law refers to the ability of a contracting party to enter into legally binding relations. If a party does not have the capacity to do so, then subsequent contracts may be invalid; however, in the interests of certainty , there is a prima facie presumption that both parties hold the capacity to contract.

  4. Agency (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    In social science, agency is the capacity of individuals to have the power and resources to fulfill their potential. Social structure consists of those factors of influence (such as social class, religion, gender, ethnicity, ability, customs, etc.) that determine or limit agents and their decisions. [1]

  5. Signature (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Signature (logic), a description of a set of function and relation symbols in mathematical logic; Signature (permutation), a measure for the number of pairs a permutation maps out of order; Signature (quadratic form), the number of positive, negative, or null terms of a quadratic form; Signature (topology) of a 4k-dimensional compact oriented ...

  6. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Concerning a case, a person may have received some funding from a 3rd party. This funding may have been considered ab extra. / ˌ æ b ˈ ɛ k s t r ə / ab initio: from the beginning "Commonly used referring to the time a contract, statute, marriage, or deed become legal. e.g. The couple was covered ab initio by her health policy." [1] / ˌ æ ...

  7. Capacity (law) - Wikipedia

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    Legal capacity is a quality denoting either the legal aptitude of a person to have rights and liabilities (in this sense also called transaction capacity), or the personhood itself in regard to an entity other than a natural person (in this sense also called legal personality).

  8. Time signature - Wikipedia

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    Most time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above the other: The lower numeral indicates the note value that the signature is counting. This number is always a power of 2 (unless the time signature is irrational), usually 2, 4 or 8, but less often 16 is also used, usually in Baroque music. 2 corresponds to the half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth ...

  9. Personal identity - Wikipedia

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    Personal identity is the unique numerical identity of a person over time. [1] [2] Discussions regarding personal identity typically aim to determine the necessary and sufficient conditions under which a person at one time and a person at another time can be said to be the same person, persisting through time.