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• mental incapacity; mental incompetency — Such is established when there is found to exist an essential privation of reasoning faculties, or when a person is incapable of understanding and acting with discretion in the ordinary affairs of life. See incapacity insanity …   Black's law dictionary

• mental incapacity; mental incompetency — Such is established when there is found to exist an essential privation of reasoning faculties, or when a person is incapable of understanding and acting with discretion in the ordinary affairs of life. See incapacity insanity …   Black's law dictionary

• incompetency — in·com·pe·ten·cy /in käm pə tən sē/ n: incompetence Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. incompetency …   Law dictionary

• incompetency — Inefficiency; a lack of some requisite ability. Anno: 4 ALR3d 1095. Inadequacy or insufficiency, either physical or mental, as the incompetency of a child for hard labor or of an idiot for intellectual labor. Brandt v Godwin, 24 NYSE 305, 3 NYS… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• bereft of reason — mental incompetency; want of capacity to reason …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• invalidism — A condition of chronic ill health, sometimes coinciding with mental incompetency, but by no means the equivalent of mental incompetency. Groff v Stitzer, 77 NJ Eq 260, 77 A 46 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Deprogramming — refers to actions that attempt to force a person to abandon allegiance to a religious, political, economic, or social group. Methods and practices may involve kidnapping and coercion.[1] Similar actions, when done without force, are called exit… …   Wikipedia

• False confession — For the band, see False Confession. A false confession is an admission of guilt in a crime in which the confessor is not responsible for the crime. False confessions can be induced through coercion or by the mental incompetency of the accused .… …   Wikipedia

• legal capacity — The ability to make contracts, conveyances, mortgages, etc. which are binding and beyond nullification for disability of the person arising from infancy, mental incompetency, etc. Pratt v Northern Pacific Express Co. 13 Idaho 373, 90 P 341 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• nonresponsible party — A person who has no property subject to levy for the enforcement of a judgment against him. A person who by reason of infancy or mental incompetency is not bound upon a contract which he has professed to make …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• old age — Advanced age; senility. Not mental incompetency in itself. Lindsey v Lindsey, 50 Ill 79; Westerbeck v Cannon, 5 Wash 2d 106, 104 P2d 918 …   Ballentine's law dictionary