In criminal law and medical jurisprudence. Drunkenness; alcoholic intoxication. Com. v. Whitney, 11 Cush. (Mass.) 479. Ecce modo mirnm, quod foemina fert breve regis, non nominando viram, con junctum robore legis. Co. Litt. 1326. Behold indeed, a wonder! that a woman has the king’s writ without naming her husband, who by law is united to her.