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County Councils

(5) Licensing of houses formusic and dancing and of racecourses; (6) Maintenance and management of hospitals and rate-aided mental hospitals. (7) Education and maintenance of schools; (8) Management of roads and bridges; (9) Regulation of fees of

Mens rea and negligence

elements, which provide a basis for the imposition of liability in criminal cases. Mens rea focuses on the mental state of the accused and requires proof of a positive state of mind such as intent, recklessness or

disability

disability pl: -ties 1 : inability to pursue an occupation because of a physical or mental impairment ;specif : inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity because of a medically determinable physical or

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rape

female or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent because of mental illness, mental deficiency, intoxication, unconsciousness, or deception see also statutory rape NOTE: The common-law crime of rape involved

certifiable

presenting symptoms of mental illness sufficient for legal commitment to a mental institution

Faculty

Ability to act or perform whether inborn or cultivated capacity for any natural function especially an original mental power or capacity for any of the well known classes of mental activity psychical or soul capacity capacity

Consent

as in a balance, the good or evil on either side. Consent supposes three things-a physical power, a mental power, and a free and serious use of them. Hence it is that if consent be obtained by

Psychometry

The art of measuring the duration of mental processes or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena

Disability

see ULTRA VIRES. It means--(i) blindness; (ii) low vision; (iii) leprosy-cured; (iv) hearing impairment; (v) locomotor disability; (vi) mental retardation; (vii) mental illness. [The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995

Feeble-minded persons

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

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