incapacity for work

incapacity for work
A familiar phrase in workmen's compensation statutes; including not merely want of physical ability to work, but lack of opportunity for work; loss of earning power as a workman in consequence of the injury, whether the loss manifests itself in inability to perform such work as may be obtainable, or inability to secure work to do. Ray v Frenchmen's Bay Packing Co. 122 Me 108, 119 A 191, 33 ALR 112, 114.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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