Mental Disease - Law Dictionary Search Results
mental disease
mental disease : an abnormal mental condition that interferes with mental or … repeated criminal or antisocial conduct ;broadly : mental illness NOTE: Mental disease and mental illness are in general use synonymous, but mental
mental illness
mental illness 1 : mental disease 2 : a mental condition marked primarily by sufficient disorganization
mental defect
that may be of a more fixed nature than a mental disease
Durham rule
the defendant's criminal act must be the product of a mental disease or defect compare irresistible impulse test, m'naghten test, substantial capacity
irresistible impulse
irresistible impulse : an overpowering impulse produced by mental disease or defect that leads to the commission of a criminal
irresistible impulse test
impulse to commit a criminal act was irresistible due to mental disease or defect regardless of whether the defendant knew right from
substantial capacity test
at the time of the crime as a result of mental disease or defect the defendant lacked the capacity to appreciate the
Psychiatria
The application of the healing art to mental diseases … The application of the healing art to mental diseases
Psychopathy
Mental disease See Psychosis 2
Person of unsound mind
which in a more enlightened age persons afflicted with a mental illness affecting their reason are to be known, as distinguished … judge in lunacy to be, through mental infirmity arising from disease or age, incapable of managing their affairs. The powers and
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