In various ways the state recognises that those under 18 lack capacity to choose.

This framework recognises that while someone can lack capacity to make some decisions (perhaps a complex financial one), they may have capacity to decide what to buy in a shop.

The act seeks to 'balance an individual's right to make decisions for themselves with their right to be protected from harm if they lack capacity' to make those decisions.

Neurons, though having a capacity to express glycogen synthase, lack capacity to degrade it.

Whatever the content and criteria of social membership, socially excluded groups and individuals lack capacity or access to social opportunity.