Diminished Capacity - Law Dictionary Search Results
diminished capacity
Matched in: Term diminished capacity
partial insanity
partial insanity : diminished capacity
Depressomotor
Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement as depressomotor nerves which lower or inhibit muscular activity
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substantial capacity test
Matched in: Term substantial capacity test
capacity
Matched in: Term capacity
defense
supporting the defendant's opposition see also accord, alibi, assumption of risk, coercion, consent contributory negligence at negligence, denial, diminished capacity, duress, entrapment, estoppel, fraud, infancy, insanity, intoxication, laches, mistake, necessity, res judicata, statute of limitations absolute defense :
irresistible impulse test
was irresistible due to mental disease or defect regardless of whether the defendant knew right from wrong compare diminished capacity, durham rule, m'naghten test, substantial capacity test
Reactance
current divided by the current that is the component of the impedance due to the self inductance or capacity of the circuit … The influence of a coil of wire upon an alternating current passing through it tending to choke or diminish the current or the similar influence of a condenser inductive resistance Reactance is measured in ohms The reactance
Conversion, equitable
an intestacy and land converted into money to the personal representatives. The importance of this distinction has been diminished in the case of deaths occurring after 1925, the rule of descent of realty and personalty having been … lunatic who had attained the age of 21 in 1925 and died intestate without having recovered his testamentary capacity (s. 51 (2) ibid.) and otherwise, cf. ss. 51 (1) and 51 (3) ibid. The doctrine is still
Dower
case the deceased husband was a lunatic or defective on January 1st, 1925, and died without regaining testamentary capacity or before his committee or receiver was discharged, see (English) A.E. Act, 1925, ss. 45(1)(c) and 51 (2), … The legislature by the 27 Hen. 8, c. 10 (the Statute of Uses), set about a method of diminishing the evil by providing a jointure in lieu of dower. By effect of this statute no widow can
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