Practice question · Multiple choice
Legal personality begins at live birth but full capacity to act arrives at eighteen. Why does the law separate the two?
Hints
- Ask whether a two-year-old can inherit a house.
- Then ask whether a two-year-old can sell it.
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B. Because holding rights and exercising them are different things
Why
The split lets rights attach immediately while protecting the holder from their own acts. Guardianship exists precisely in the gap between the two.
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