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UNSOUND MIND

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A person of unsound mind is an adult who from infirmity of mind is incapable of managing himself or his af-fairs. The term, therefore, includes insane persons, idiots, and Imbeciles. Sweet. See INSANITY. And see Cheney v. Price, 00 Hun, 238, 37 N. Y. Supp. 117; In re Black's Estate, 1 Myr. Prob. (Cal.) 24; In re Mason, 3 Edw. Ch. (N. Y.) 380; Hart v. Miller, 29 Ind. App. 222, … [Read more...]

URBS

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Latin: In Roman law. A city, or a walled town. Sometimes it is put for civitast and denotes the inhabitants, or both the city and its inhabitants; i. e the municipality or commonwealth. By way of special pre-eminence, urbs meant the city of Rome. Ains worth. … [Read more...]

UNSOUND MIND or UNSOUND MEMORY

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These words have been adopted in several statutes, and sometimes indiscriminately used to signify, not only lunacy, which is periodical madness, but also a permanent adventitious insanity as distinguished from idiocy. 2. The term unsound mind seems to have been used in those statutes in the same sense as insane; but they have been said to import that the party was in some such … [Read more...]

URE

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L. Fr. Effect; practice. Mis en tire, put in practice; carried into effect Kelham. … [Read more...]

UNSOUNDNESS

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Vide Crib-biting; Roaring; Soundness. … [Read more...]

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