Menace: To threaten harm.
Mental competence: A state in which one is in possession of one's mental faculties and capable of the usual normal ability to express oneself.
Menace
Definition - Noun
1 : a show of an intention to inflict esp. physical harm <accomplished against a person's will by means of force,...~, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury California Penal Code> ...
A person is guilty of simple assault if he (a) attempts to cause or purposely, knowingly or recklessly causes bodily injury to another; or (b) negligently causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon; or (c) attempts by physical menace to ...
What merely wounds the feelings is seldom admitted to be cruelty, unless the act be accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced.
Red Scare or Red Menace?: American Communism and Anti Communism in the Cold War Era. Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 1-56663-091-6.
Haynes, John Earl and Klehr, Harvey (2000). Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. Yale University Press.
Menace.
2. When a confession is obtained from a person accused of crime, in consequence of a threat, evidence of such confession cannot be received, because, being obtained by the torture of fear, it comes in so questionable a shape, ...
The Latin term "Per minas" means, in a UK legal context: "by means of menaces or threats".
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Per minas - By means of menaces or threats
Per quod - By reason of which
Post mortem - After death ...
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