Affect: legal meaning as acting upon or influencing, signifying impact on persons, things, or the mind. Affect denotes the capacity to act upon or influence persons, things, or conditions, producing change, enlargement, abridgement, or other effects; it covers injurious action, disease-like invasion, and the power to impress or influence the mind and feelings, thereby causing alteration in status, condition, or perception.
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Affect: legal meaning as acting upon or influencing, signifying impact on persons, things, or the mind.
Affect denotes the capacity to act upon or influence persons, things, or conditions, producing change, enlargement, abridgement, or other effects; it covers injurious action, disease-like invasion, and the power to impress or influence the mind and feelings, thereby causing alteration in status, condition, or perception.
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