Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.
mental incapacity; mental incompetency — Such is established when there is found to exist an essential privation of reasoning faculties, or when a person is incapable of understanding and acting with discretion in the ordinary affairs of life. See incapacity insanity … Black's law dictionary
incapacity — in·ca·pac·i·ty /ˌin kə pa sə tē/ n pl ties 1: the quality or state of being incapable; esp: lack of legal qualifications due to age or mental condition compare capacity 2: the inability of an injured worker to perform the duties required in a job … Law dictionary
incompetency — in·com·pe·ten·cy /in käm pə tən sē/ n: incompetence Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. incompetency … Law dictionary
incompetency — Inefficiency; a lack of some requisite ability. Anno: 4 ALR3d 1095. Inadequacy or insufficiency, either physical or mental, as the incompetency of a child for hard labor or of an idiot for intellectual labor. Brandt v Godwin, 24 NYSE 305, 3 NYS… … Ballentine's law dictionary
incapacity — Synonyms and related words: Urdummheit, brainlessness, caducity, decrepitude, disability, disablement, disqualification, foolishness, ignorance, imbecility, inability, inadeptness, inadequacy, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability … Moby Thesaurus
disability — dis·abil·i·ty n 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 mental impairment that can be … Law dictionary
imbecility — Synonyms and related words: amentia, arrested development, asininity, backwardness, battiness, blithering idiocy, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, cretinism, daffiness, desipience, disability,… … Moby Thesaurus
ineptitude — Synonyms and related words: Urdummheit, absurdity, asininity, awkwardness, battiness, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, clumsiness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, desipience, disability, disablement, disqualification,… … Moby Thesaurus
maladjustment — Synonyms and related words: abnormality, anomaly, brain disease, crack up, emotional disorder, emotional instability, functional nervous disorder, impropriety, inability, inadeptness, inadequacy, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness,… … Moby Thesaurus
abortion — abor·tion /ə bȯr shən/ n 1: the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus; esp: the medical procedure of inducing expulsion of a human fetus to terminate a pregnancy 2: the crime of … Law dictionary
