incapacity

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incapacity

Law

a. legal disqualification or ineligibility

b. a circumstance causing this

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How sincere and confidential we can be, saying all that lies in the mind, and yet go away feeling that all is yet unsaid, from the incapacity of the parties to know each other, although they use the same words

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In this way arose Feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon;half echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter,witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart's core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history.

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At the time there was a strong feeling in the streets that the authorities were to blame for their incapacity to dispose of the invaders without all this inconvenience.

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I knew, of course, that they must despise me now for my lack of success in the service, and for my having let myself sink so low, going about badly dressed and so on--which seemed to them a sign of my incapacity and insignificance.

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Mental incapacity can be a ground for dismissal from office if proven but, according to the Supreme Court, a declaration of mental disorder does not automatically translate into a judgment of mental incapacity to perform work as in the case of Metro Cebu Water District (MCWD) employee Vilma E.

WHAT WENT BEFORE: Mental incapacity as ground for dismissal

The concept of incapacity has a large acceptation that can cover more situations.

A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE INCAPACITIES OF EXERCISE AND THEIR SANCTIONS

MORE than 3,300 people on Teesside have been stripped of their incapacity benefits under new regulations.

3,320 hit by benefit rules

Under the coalition, Incapacity Benefit, Severe Disablement Allowance and illness related Income Support began to be phased out and replaced by Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).

Claimants proved fit for work

MORE than one in four people claiming incapacity benefits in parts of Wales have been found fit to work under the Tories' new benefits shakeup.

Quarter of incapacity claimants found fit to work

One clause that few clients pay attention to is the one governing how that client's incapacity could be determined--and therefore how the client could be removed from serving as a fiduciary or trustee.

Boilerplate trust clauses

Manifest Madness: Mental Incapacity in Criminal Law, Arlie Loughnan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Manifest Madness: Mental Incapacity in Criminal Law

Contract notice: Health care costs, welfare deaths, disability and incapacity executives and non-executives to collective and compulsory at 1.

Health care costs, welfare deaths, disability and incapacity executives and non-executives