Insanity - Law Dictionary Search Results
Asylums Board
Asylums Board, constituted under the (English) Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, dealt with the administration relating to cases of insanity (inter alia) among the poor in London. The Lancashire Asylums Board, established by the Lancashire County Council under
Abnormal law
law, means the law as it applies to persons who are under legal disabilities such as infancy, alienage, insanity, criminality and converture, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5.
Pellagrous
Pertaining to or affected with or attendant on pellagra as pellagrous insanity
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Madness
The condition of being mad insanity lunacy
Mild
persons and things as a mild disposition a mild eye a mild air a mild medicine a mild insanity
litigate
the subject of a suit [ a claim] ;broadly : to contest or resolve in court [ an insanity defense] lit·i·ga·ble [li-tə-gə-bəl] adj lit·i·ga·tion [li-tə-gā-shən] n lit·i·ga·tion·al [-shə-nəl] adj lit·i·ga·to·ry [li-tə-gə-tōr-ē] adj
burden
of pleading the necessary elements] 2 : burden of proof [the husband had not carried his on the insanity issue "Case & Comment"]
capacity
relates to responsibility for the commission of a crime (as murder) see also diminished capacity compare competency, incapacity, insanity
commitment
a mental hospital as a result of being found incompetent to stand trial, not guilty by reason of insanity, or incompetent to be sentenced. b : an act of referring a matter to a legislative committee c
competency
competency 1 : the quality or state of being mentally competent compare capacity, incompetence, insanity 2 : the quality or state of being legally qualified or adequate [the , quantum and legal effect
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