Imbecility - Law Dictionary Search Results
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imbecile : a mentally retarded or deficient person ;esp : a severely mentally retarded person used esp. formerly ; see also idiot ...
Imbecile
Destitute of strength whether of body or mind feeble impotent esp mentally wea feeble minded as hospitals for the imbecile and insane...
Imbecility
The quality of being imbecile weakness feebleness esp of mind...
Imbecile
Imbecile, means a person afflicted with severe mental retardation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 751....
Imbeciles
Imbeciles, 'persons in whose case there exists mental defectiveness not amounting to idiocy, yet so pronounced that they are incapable of managing themselves or their affairs, or, in the case of children, of being taught to do so' [(Englihs) Mental Deficiency Act, 1927, s. 1(1)(b)]. See IDIOT....
Imbecility
Imbecility. Weakness of tenure, e.g., leasehold contrasted with freehold (Brediman's Case, 6 rep. 56 b)....
Moral Imbeciles
Moral Imbeciles, 'persons who from an early age display some permanent mental defect coupled with strong vicious or criminal propensities on which punishment has had little or no deterrent effect'; see (English) Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 28), s. 1 (d). They constitute one of the four classes of 'defectives' dealt with by the Act....
idiot
idiot : a person with esp. profound mental retardation NOTE: While the terms idiot imbecile, and moron survive in many state codes and statutes, they are generally no longer used in both medical and legal contexts. The modern terminology distinguishes between mild, moderate, severe, and profound levels of retardation. Historically persons with mental retardation have suffered legal disabilities (as in not being allowed to marry or vote). Generally today, an adult with mental retardation who is his or her own guardian does not suffer these disabilities. ...
Dementia
Insanity madness esp that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason mental imbecility idiocy...
Dotage
Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind particularly in old age the childishness of old age senility as a venerable man now in his dotage...
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