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deaf muteness

the condition of being a deaf mute a congenital deafness that results in inability to speak...

deaf and dumb

both deaf and unable to speak without the sense of hearing or the faculty of speech Same as Deaf mute...

Deaf mute

A person who is deaf and dumb one who through deprivation or defect of hearing has either failed the acquire the power of speech or has lost it...

Deaf and dumb and blind. A man that is born deaf, dumb, and blind is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot, he being supposed incapable of any understanding. Nevertheless, a deaf and dumb person, i.e., a 'mute by the visitation of God,' may be tried for felony if the prisoner can read or write and be made to understand by means of signs or symbols (1 Leach, C. L. 102). As to when he is a competent witness, see Tayl. on Evid. s. 1248; John Ruston's case (1786), Leach, Cr Ca 408.There is, general, no separate affliction of dumbness, apart from deafness, of which dumbness is the necessary result.Education.--As to the education of afflicted children, provision is made for instruction suitable to the condition of the child by the (English) Education Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 61-67....