Legal capacity

Equal civil legal capacity

Constitutional and legal active and passive voting right

13.2 Legal capacity of women

Constitutional and legal rights of active and passive election

According to the Artificial Insemination and Embryo Protection Act only adult women of up to 50 years of age who have active legal capacity are, at their own request, permitted to undergo artificial insemination.

Women have a legal capacity equal to men and have the same opportunities to exercise that capacity.

13.3 Invalidity of contracts limiting the legal capacity of women

This capacity is protected by article 325 of the Civil Code A married woman has full legal capacity.

Those efforts will further strengthen the capacity of our legal system.

A person who has been divested of his or her active legal capacity by a court or is convicted by a court and is serving a sentence in a custodial institution does not have the right to vote.

Recommendation 5 General legal capacity in other United Nations departments and offices

A citizen's full or partial waiver of legal capacity and other acts aimed at limiting legal capacity are null and void, except in cases in which such acts are allowed by law.

Under civil law, the legal capacity of a citizen is manifested in the ability to have civil rights and to bear responsibility (civil legal capacity), which are recognized in equal measure for all citizens.

It also must strengthen its know how in capacity building, particularly administrative capacity building, with an emphasis on its legal institutional aspects.

The legal capacity of a citizen arises at the moment of his birth and ends with his death (article 18 of the Civil Code). The content of the legal capacity of citizens is as follows

Under 60 patients are becoming more important as newer artificial joints prove their capacity to withstand more active lifestyles.

Even in France and Germany, large and internationally active banks potentially exceed the government s capacity to mount a rescue.

Short term memory (or primary or active memory ) is the capacity for holding a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.

Legal reform processes are therefore a necessary component of any disaster related capacity building endeavour.

These include limited financing, limited institutional capacity, legal complexity, and the need for community involvement.

The project will include legal awareness programmes and capacity building for religious and community leaders.

Legal capacity is understood to mean a person's power to exercise his or her rights.

In the Niger, the legal capacity of both men and women is recognized by law.

Article 216 of the Civil Code provides that A married woman has full legal capacity.

States parties shall accord to women, in civil matters, a legal capacity identical to that of men and the same opportunities to exercise that capacity.

States Parties shall accord to women, in civil matters, a legal capacity identical to that of men and the same opportunities to exercise that capacity.

States Parties shall accord to women, in civil matters, a legal capacity identical to that of men and the same opportunities to exercise that capacity.

States Parties shall accord to women, in civil matters, a legal capacity identical to that of men and the same opportunities to exercise that capacity.

The State gives women the same civil legal capacity and the same opportunities to exercise it.

d) after marriage, both husband and wife have the legal capacity to enter into all transactions

As to the State party's argument that mental illness cannot be equated to a lack of legal capacity , the Committee considers that confinement of an individual to a psychiatric institution amounts to an acknowledgement of that individual's diminished capacity, legal and otherwise.

The World Customs Organization has also been active in this area and has finalized its Customs Capacity Building Strategy and associated Action Plan.

Persons who have been divested of their active legal capacity by a court or have been convicted of a criminal offence by a court and are serving a prison sentence or are regular members of the Defence Forces cannot stand as candidates in elections to the European Parliament.

An Estonian citizen with active legal capacity from 25 to 70 years of age who resides in Estonia, has proficiency of the Estonian language at the advanced level, and is of suitable moral character for the activity of a lay judge may be appointed as a lay judge.

Deprived of legal capacity, he was prohibited from acting independently, or at all, in most areas of life.

(b) Capacity building for strengthening legal institutions, including improving the quality of judges, prosecutors, lawyers and court staff

Legal harmonization, licensing and accreditation of traditional medicine, collective rights and capacity building among communities are particularly needed.

The issue addressed here is contracts and other private instruments directed at restricting the legal capacity of women.

UNODC technical cooperation aims to assist legal, financial and law enforcement authorities in developing legal frameworks, institutional capacity, training in financial investigations and intelligence gathering, research and awareness raising.

The State party argued that legal representation is not obligatory and that the author as a person enjoying full capacity for legal deeds could successfully plead her case before the courts by herself. In this context, it referred to the decision of the Supreme Court of 21 April 1999, which held that, in the circumstances of the case, a lawyer was not necessary as the author enjoyed full capacity of legal deeds and mental illness cannot be equated to a lack of legal capacity.

The legal capacity of women is also covered in the proposed amendments to the Civil Code dealing with equality.

It refers to the Supreme Court's opinion that mental illness cannot be equated to a lack of legal capacity .

Further capacity building in transitional economies and countries, such as Croatia itself, is important to support our active engagement in the international development arena and our active participation as shareholders in the Bretton Woods institutions, and not only as borrowers.

Remarkably, Women Unions at different levels have been active in disseminating legal knowledge for women and organizing campaigns to raise public awareness on gender equality.