Insanity (Law)
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Insanity (Law)
- Here are entered works on the legal standard whereby persons with severe mental disorders are prevented from having legal capacity and are excused from criminal or civil responsibility.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85066558
- info:lc/authorities/sh85066558
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85066558#concept
Instance Of
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Variants
- Criminal insanity
- Insanity
- Insanity (Jurisprudence)
- Lunacy (Law)
- Mental illness--Law and legislation
- Mentally ill--Legal status, laws, etc.
Broader Terms
Related Terms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
- Insanity
Sources
- found: Black's law dict. (insanity; lunacy see insanity)
- found: American Heritage dict. ("Law a. Unsoundness of mind sufficient in the judgment of a civil court to render a person unfit to maintain a contractual or other legal relationship or to warrant commitment to a mental health facility. b. In most criminal jurisdictions, a degree of mental malfunctioning sufficient to relieve the accused of legal responsibility for the act commited.")
- found: Nolo.com Web site, May 24, 2007 (criminal insanity: a mental defect or disease that makes it impossible for a person to understand the wrongfulness of his acts or, even if he understands them, to distinguish right from wrong. Defendants who are criminally insane cannot be convicted of a crime, since criminal conduct involves the conscious intent to do wrong -- a choice that the criminally insane cannot meaningfully make.)
General Notes
- Here are entered works on the legal standard whereby persons with severe mental disorders are prevented from having legal capacity and are excused from criminal or civil responsibility.
Example Notes
- Notes under [Mental health laws; Mental illness]
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2008-12-04: revised
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