DOLI CAPAX

doli capax (doh-lIkay-paks), adj. [Latin “capable of wrong”] Roman law. Capable of committing a crime or tort; esp., old enough to determine right from wrong. — Also termed capax doli. Cf. DOLI INCAPAX. “In criminal cases, an infant of the age of fourteen years may be capitally punished for any capital offence: but under the […]