PD 1083 Article 8

Legal capacity.

Article 8

ARTICLE 8. Legal capacity. — Juridical capacity, which is the fitness to be the subject of legal relations, is inherent in every natural person and is lost only through death. Capacity to act, which is the power to do acts with legal effect, is acquired and may be lost.

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