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The legal word for when your brain can't sign the check your life needs.
means The state of lacking the legal or mental ability to make decisions, manage affairs, or be held responsible for actions.
from From Latin 'incapacitas' — 'in-' (not) joined to 'capacitas' (capacity, ability to hold or grasp), itself from 'capere,' meaning to take or seize. So the word literally means an inability to 'take hold' — of information, consequences, or one's own affairs — a root it shares with words like 'capture' and 'capable.'
- legal test
- Can you understand consequences, not just words
- not permanent
- Can be temporary, partial, or decision-specific
- contracts void
- Incapacitated signatures often don't legally count
- different from incompetence
- That's a court ruling, this is a state