Capotorti, F. Keywords: Ability | Private international law | Mots clefs: Capacité | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In his course on the Power in Private International Law, Francesco Capotorti reflects mainly on Italian law. As this right is strictly related to other legal systems of continental Western Europe, the basis of its research naturally extends to the concepts and rules which they derive from a common tradition. The author provides further indications of comparative law when the content of contine…