Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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proprietary capacity
See CAPACITY (1)
proprietary capacity.
The capacity of a city or town when it engages in a business-like venture rather than a governmental function. See PROPRIETARY FUNCTION. 2. A legal qualification, such as legal age, that determines one's ability to sue or be sued, to enter into a binding contract, and the like < she had full capacity to bind the corporation with her signature>. ( Unless necessary to show the court's jurisdiction, a plaintiff's pleadings need not assert the legal capacity of any party. A party wishing to raise the issue of capacity must do so by specific negative pleading. Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(a). - Also termed (specif.) capacity to sue. See STANDING. 3. The mental ability to understand the nature and effect of one's acts <his acute pain reduced his capacity to understand the hospital's admission form>. - Also termed mental capacity. See COMPETENCY.