Delusive - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: delusiveDelusive
Apt or fitted to delude tending to mislead the mind deceptive beguiling delusory as delusive arts a delusive dream...
insane delusion
insane delusion : a false belief in a nonexistent state of facts in which no rational person would believe that deprives a person of the capacity to make a will and renders any will made invalid ...
Insane delusion
Insane delusion, means an irrational, persistent belief in an imaginary state of facts that deprives a person of the capacity to undertake acts of legal consequence, such as making a will, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 797....
Paranoid schizophrenia
Paranoid schizophrenia, in the vast majority of cases, starts in the fourth decade and develops insidiously. Suspiciousness is the characteristic symptom of the early stage. Ideas of reference occur, which gradually develops into delusions of persecution. Auditory hallucinations follow, which in the beginning, start as sound or noises in the ears, but are afterwards changes into abuses or insults. Delusions are at first indefinite, but gradually they become fixed and definite, to lead the patient to believe that he is persecuted by some unknown person or some superhuman agency. He believes that his food is being poisoned. Some noxious gases are blown into his room, and people are plotting against him to ruin him. Disturbances of general sensation given rise to hallucinations, which are attributed to the effects of hypnotism, electricity wireless telegraphy or atomic agencies. The patient gets very irritate and excited owing to these painful and disagreeable hallucinations and delusions...
paranoia
A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect systematized delusion and usually by delusions of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called ldquocranksrdquo Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration and many have hallucinations esp of sight and hearing...
Monomania
Monomania, Insanity about some particular subject or class of subjects, usually manifested by a single insane delusion. A will made by some one suffering from this condition is usually held valid unless the evidence shows that particular provisions in the will were influenced by the insane delusion, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1022.Monomania, insanity upon a particular subject...
Circumvention
The act of prevailing over another by arts address or fraud deception fraud imposture delusion...
Countercast
A trick a delusive contrivance...
Deceptious
Tending deceive delusive...
Delusion
The act of deluding deception a misleading of the mind...
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