Insanity - Law Dictionary Search Results
diminished capacity
specific intent necessary for the commission of a crime (as first-degree murder) but that does not amount to insanity called also diminished responsibility partial insanity compare insanity, irresistible impulse test, m'naghten test, substantial capacity test 2 a
Macnaughton's Case, Rules in
majority constitute 'the rules in Macnaughton's case,' and have been accepted as laying down the law as to insanity with reference to criminal responsibility. See Archbold, Crim. Pleading, etc., 25th Edn., p. 15 et seq. The rules
guilty but mentally ill
guilty but mentally ill : a verdict available in some jurisdictions in cases involving an insanity defense in which the defendant is considered as if having been found guilty but is committed to a
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defense
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 : complete defense in this entry af·fir·ma·tive
loony bin
An institution for the confinement or treatment of insane persons such as an insane asylum or the psychiatric ward of a hospital
Madhouse
An house or institution where insane persons are confined an insane asylum a bedlam usually used in a deprecatory sense
paranoia
A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect systematized delusion and usually by delusions of persecution or mandatory
Paranoid schizophrenia
haughty and overbearing manner. The patient usually retains his memory, and orientation and does not show signs of insanity, until the conversation is directed to the particular type of delusion from which he is suffering. When delusions
Lucid Interval
Lucid Interval. By a lucid interval is understood, in a legal sense, a temporary cessation of the insanity or a perfect restoration to reason. It differs entirely from a remission, in which there is a mere
Kleptomania
Kleptomania [fr., Gk., to steal; and, frenzy], insanity in the form of an irresistible propensity to steal. Consult Taylor's Med. Jur.
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