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sound — 1 adj 1 a: free from injury or disease: exhibiting normal health b: free from flaw, defect, or decay a sound design 2 a: free from error, fallacy, or misapprehension based on sound judicial reasoning b: legally valid … Law dictionary
sound — Synonyms and related words: Christian, able to pay, accepted, adamantine, admissible, advantageous, advertise, all there, announce, annunciate, appear, appear like, appraise, appreciate, approved, arm, armlet, articulate, aspect, assay, assess,… … Moby Thesaurus
sound mind — index competence (sanity) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 sound mind … Law dictionary
sound — sound1 W1S1 [saund] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: son, from Latin sonus] 1.) [U and C] something that you hear, or what can be heard = ↑noise ▪ There were strange sounds coming from the next room. sound of ▪ She could hear the sound … Dictionary of contemporary English
sound — 1 /saUnd/ noun 1 SENSATION (U) something that you hear, or what can be heard: strange sounds coming from the next room (+ of): the sound of voices | not make a sound (=keep quiet): Don t make a sound, any of you! | Light travels faster than sound … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
sound and disposing mind and memory — Testamentary capacity. Such mind and memory as enables testator to know and understand business in which he is engaged at time of making will. Farmers Union Bank of Henning v. Johnson, 27 Tenn.App. 342, 181 S.W.2d 369, 374. See also capacity, and … Black's law dictionary
sound — I To have reference or relation to; to aim at. An action is technically said to sound in tort or damages where it is brought not for the specific recovery of a thing, but for damages only. See sounding in damages II sound, adj Whole; in good… … Black's law dictionary
sound in mind and body — physically and mentally healthy … English contemporary dictionary
sound mind — The mind of a person who is sane and mentally competent. Characterizing ability of a testator to understand in a general way the nature and extent of his property, his relation to those who naturally have a claim to benefit from the property left … Ballentine's law dictionary
The Sound and the Fury — This article is about the novel by William Faulkner. For other uses, see The Sound and the Fury (disambiguation). The Sound and the Fury … Wikipedia
