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Lunacy
Related Category: Legal Terms and Concepts
see insanity.
More on Lunacy
Insanity - mental disorder of such severity as to render its victim incapable of managing his affairs or of conforming to social standards.
Lunacy law definition:
The law as it relates to the assessment and committal of persons incapable of managing themselves or their affairs.
Related Terms: Dementia, M'Naghten Rules
A term no longer in use.
COMMISSION OF LUNACY, A writ issued out of chancery, or such court as may have jurisdiction of the case directed to a proper officer, to inquire whether a person named therein is a lunatic or not. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 382, et seq.
Persons deemed incompetent as a matter of law are those persons who, usually as a result of dementia or lunacy, are incapable of understanding the nature of truth; such persons are, therefore, never able to sue, maintain, ...
"The Late Lord Chief Justice of England on Lunacy". Brain 4: 1-26. doi:10.1093/brain/4.1.1.
Butler Committee. (1975). The Butler Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders, London: HMSO, Cmnd 6244
Dalby, J.T.
In this sense the word is applied to members of a permanently constituted department of the administration, as civil service commissioners, commissioners of income tax, commissioners in lunacy, &c.
An agreement is void if it is executed with an external influence like coercion, threatening, lunacy, affects of alcohol, narcotics etc, on any of the parties. So mental competency means the state of mind without external influences.
of a marriage between one of the contracting parties and another person, at the time the marriage sought to be dissolved took place; consanguinity, or that degree of relationship forbidden by law; affinity in some states; impotence, idiocy, lunacy, ...
 See also: Person, Nation, Were, Law, Will
  
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