unsoundness of mind
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unsoundness — noun 1. a condition of damage or decay • Ant: ↑soundness • Derivationally related forms: ↑unsound • Hypernyms: ↑condition, ↑status • Hyponyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
sick mind — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, alienation, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, folie, furor, insaneness, insanity, irrationality,… … Moby Thesaurus
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
Penal Code (Singapore) — The Penal Code of Singapore [Singapore Statute | c ed = 1985] sets out general principles of the criminal law of Singapore, as well as the elements and penalties of common criminal offences such as homicide, theft and cheating. The Penal Code… … Wikipedia
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
