Feeble Minded - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: feeble mindedFeeble-minded persons
Feeble-minded persons are one of the four classes of 'defectives' for dealing with whom elaborate provision is made by the (English) Mental Treatment Act, 1927 (18 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 33), s. 1; see IDIOT. As to Scotland, see the (English) Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 38)....
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...
Imbecile
Destitute of strength whether of body or mind feeble impotent esp mentally wea feeble minded as hospitals for the imbecile and insane...
Idiot
Idiot. An idiot is a person born without a mind. For Coke's classification of persons of unsound mind, see Co. Litt. 247 a.Idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, and moral defectives constitute the four kinds of persons define as 'mentally defective' by the (English) Mental Deficiency Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 33), s. 1, idiots being defined (s. 1 (a) as 'persons in whose case there exists mental defectiveness of such a degree that they are unable to guard themselves against common physical dangers.' The (English) M.D. Act, 1913, as amended by the Act of 1927, provides (s. 2) for defectives being dealt with either by being sent to an institution or placed under guardianship. The general superintendence of matters relating to their supervision, training or occupation, protection, and control is vested in a central body styled 'the Board of Control' (ss. 21 et seq.), and County Councils and Borough Councils are constituted committees for the purposes of the Act (ss. 27 et seq.). T...
Faintling
Timorous feeble minded...
Feeble minded
Weak in intellectual power wanting firmness or constancy irresolute vacillating imbecile...
Montessori Method
A system of training and instruction primarily for use with normal children aged from three to six years devised by Dr Maria Montessori while teaching in the ldquoHouses of Childhoodrdquo schools in the poorest tenement districts of Rome Italy and first fully described by her in 1909 The fundamental aim is to create self motivation for education and the leading features are freedom for physical activity no stationary desks and chairs informal and individual instruction the very early development of reading and writing skills and an extended sensory and motor training with special emphasis on vision touch perception of movement and their interconnections mediated by a patented standardized system of ldquodidactic apparatusrdquo which is declared to be ldquoauto regulativerdquo Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current methods used in many institutions for training feeble minded children and dating back especially to the work of the French American physician Edou...
Feebleness
The quality or condition of being feeble debility infirmity...
Earthly minded
Having a mind devoted to earthly things worldly minded opposed to spiritual minded...
meeting of the minds
meeting of the minds :assent to the mutually agreed upon and understood terms of an agreement by the parties to a contract that may be manifest by objective signs of intent (as conduct) [the parties had not reached a meeting of the minds, and they did not have a specifically enforceable agreement "Franklin v. Stern, 858 P.2d 142 (1993) (dissent)"] ...
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