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Hearing handicap

support or maintenance; and (ii) is suffering from a permanent physical disability (including blindness) or is subject to mental retar-dation, being a permanent physical disability or mental retardation specified in the rules made by the Board for

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,

Impotency

Impotency means a person is impotent if his physical or mental condition make consummation of marriage a practical impossibility. Impotency may arise on account of physical defect or mental

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Intent and knowledge

and 'knowledge' in the ingredients of s. 299 of the Indian Penal Code postulate the existence of positive mental attitude and this mental condition is the special mens rea necessary for the offence, Jayaraj v. State of

Master in lunacy

Management and Administration Department (Patients' Estates Rules, 1934, r. 8). See also Lunacy Act, 1908, s. 1; (English) Mental Deficiency Act, 1930, s. 5; The (English) Mental Treatment Rules, 1930 (S.R.&O. 1930, No. 1083); and (English) Patients'

De lunatico inquirendo, writ

now, a simpler form of proceeding being available now under the (English) Lunacy Acts, 1890-1922, and the (English) Mental Treatment Act,1930, and Rules thereunder (S.R. & O. 1930, No. 1083), but inquisitions are required when it becomes

Compensation

as recompense;'. In legal sense it may constitute actual loss or expected loss and may extend to physical mental or even emotional suffering, insult or injury or loss, Ghaziabad Development Authority v. Balbir Singh, (2004) 5 SCC

Consideration

ground that such great inequality betokens mutual mistake, or fraud or undue advantage on the one side, or mental incompetency on the other, and, inequity, inadequacy maybe a reason for refusing specific performance, Pegler v. White, 33

Contract

is founded upon the mutual agree-ment of the parties; the other essentials are legality, capacity (depending on age, mental ability, sex and status) a mutual identity of consent (consensus ad idem), and form. When an agreement is

Cost of maintenance

Cost of maintenance, in relation to a mentally ill person admitted in a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home, shall mean the cost of such items

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