Disability, in Law, is either absolute, which wholly disables the person from doing any legal act—e.g. outlawry, excommunication, attainer, alienage—or partial, as infancy, lunacy, and drunkenness. For Catholic and Jewish disabilities, see CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION AND JEWS.
Disability
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