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Adults of sound mind have full contractual capacity. On the other hand, minors, the mentally incapacitated and companies have limited contractual capacity. In the case of minors and the mentally incapacitated, contract law seeks to protect such persons from the consequences of their own inexperience or inability. The limitations placed upon the contractual capacity of companies raise rather different issues, to which we shall return at 16.4.
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© 1997 Ewan McKendrick
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McKendrick, E. (1997). Capacity. In: Contract Law. Macmillan Law Masters. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14657-4_16
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