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Article 39General Provisions
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The following circumstances, among others,
modify or limit capacity to act: age, insanity, imbecility,
the state of being a deaf-mute, penalty, prodigality, family
relations, alienage, absence, insolvency and trusteeship.
The consequences of these circumstances are governed
in this Code, other codes, the Rules of Court, and in
special laws. Capacity to act is not limited on account of
religious belief or political opinion.
A married woman, twenty-one years of age or over, is
qualified for all acts of civil life, except in cases specified
by law. (n)
CHAPTER 2 Natural Persons
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