unsoundness of mind

unsoundness of mind
index insanity, lunacy

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006

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  • unsound mind — The mind of an insane or mentally deficient person. As used in a statute providing for the appointment of a guardian of the property and minor children of a person of unsound mind, the term relates to the capacity of the person to transact… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • unsound mind — Non legal term referring to one who from infirmity of mind is incapable of managing himself or his affairs. The term, therefore, includes insane persons (see insanity). It exists where there is an essential deprivation of the reasoning faculties …   Black's law dictionary

  • disposing mind — A test of testamentary capacity, being a mind capable of knowing and understanding the disposition to be made of one s property by will and the persons upon whom bounty is to be bestowed, notwithstanding some element of mental unsoundness.… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • insane — insane, mad, crazy, crazed, demented, deranged, lunatic, maniac, non compos mentis are comparable in their general or nontechnical senses (for senses of corresponding nouns used technically see INSANITY) and as meaning afflicted by or manifesting …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • insanity — in·san·i·ty n 1: unsoundness of mind or lack of the ability to understand that prevents one from having the mental capacity required by law to enter into a particular relationship, status, or transaction or that releases one from criminal or… …   Law dictionary

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  • possession — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, accessories, acquest, acquire, acquisition, affluence, alienation, ally, aplomb, appointments, appurtenances, archduchy, archdukedom, assets, assurance, baggage, balance, bedevilment,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • aberration — Synonyms and related words: aberrance, aberrancy, abet, abnormality, abnormity, alienation, amorphism, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, bend, bias, brain damage, brainsickness, branching off, centrifugence, circuitousness, clouded mind, conceit …   Moby Thesaurus

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