Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each concept to its definition.
- Legal capacity
- Capacity to act
- Legal person
- Representation
- Acting validly in another’s name
- Organization recognized as a subject of law
- Aptitude to exercise rights personally
- Aptitude to hold rights and obligations
Hints
- Separate having rights from being able to exercise them.
- One term names acting through someone else.
Show the answer
- Legal capacity → Aptitude to hold rights and obligations
- Capacity to act → Aptitude to exercise rights personally
- Legal person → Organization recognized as a subject of law
- Representation → Acting validly in another’s name
Why
Holding, exercising, being, and standing-in, the four pillars of the law of persons.
Practise Legal Personality and Capacity to Act
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