Evil Minded - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: evil mindedEvil minded
Having evil dispositions or intentions disposed to mischief or sin malicious malignant wicked...
Evil
Having qualities tending to injury and mischief having a nature or properties which tend to badness mischievous not good worthless or deleterious poor as an evil beast and evil plant an evil crop...
Evilness
The condition or quality of being evil badness viciousness malignity vileness as evilness of heart the evilness of sin...
Person of unsound mind
Person of unsound mind, a term by which in a more enlightened age persons afflicted with a mental illness affecting their reason are to be known, as distinguished from Idiots, Imbeciles, Feeble-minded Persons and Moral Defectives under the Mental Deficiency Act, 1927 (17 & 18Geo. 5, c. 33) (see those titles, and LUNATICS).The statute law affecting persons of unsound mind in contained in the (English) Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, 1890 to 1930, of which the principal are the (English) Lunacy Acts, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 5), 1891 (54 & 55 Vict., c. 56), and as regards Boards of Control, the Mental Deficiency Acts, 1913 to 1927 and the Mental Treatment Rules, 1930 (S.R. & O., 1930 No. 1083). A classification of patients has been made as follows: (a) Voluntary (see the (English) Act of 1930, s. 1; (b) Temporary (ibid., s. 5 (1); (c) Certified [(English) Lunacy Act, 1890, s. 4]; (d) Found to be of unsound mind upon inquisition (see that title), and a further classification is into a pri...
Evil eye
See Evil eye under Evil a...
Earthly minded
Having a mind devoted to earthly things worldly minded opposed to spiritual minded...
choice of evils defense
choice of evils defense see defense ...
lesser evils defense
lesser evils defense see defense ...
Evil eyed
Possessed of the supposed evil eye also looking with envy jealousy or bad design malicious...
King's evil
King's evil, scrofula, formerly supposed to be cured by the King touching the sufferer and hanging round his neck a white ribbon to which was fastened a gold coin; for an account of the ceremony of 'touching,' see Macaulay's Hist. Of England, ch. xiv....
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