UNCONTROLLABLE IMPULSE

As an excuse for the commission of an act otherwise criminal, this term means an impulse towards its commission of such fixity and intensity that it cannot be resisted by the person subject to it, in the enfeebled condition of his will and moral sense re-sulting from derangement or mania. See INSANITY. And see State v. O'Neil, 51 Kan. 651, 33 Pac. 287, 24 L. R. A. 555. … [Read more...] about UNCONTROLLABLE IMPULSE

An automatic divorce granted by the court when the spouse served with divorce is served with a summons and complaint but fails to respond or make an appearance in court. It is also used to refer to divorces where both spouses have worked out their differences and there is no need for both spouses to go to court, pay court costs and litigate. The divorce proceeding is automatic, … [Read more...] about UNCONTESTED DIVORCE

Not able to be challenged or contested. … [Read more...] about UNCONTESTABLE

That which is contrary to the constitution. 2. When an act of the legislature is repugnant or contrary to the constitution, it is, ipso facto, void. 3. The courts have the power, and it is their duty, when an act is unconstitutional, to declare it to be so; but this will not be done except in a clear case and, as an additional guard against error, the supreme court of the … [Read more...] about UNCONSTITUTIONAL

contracts. A contract which no man in his senses, not under delusion, would make, on the one hand, and which no fair and honest man would accept, on the other. … [Read more...] about UNCONSCIONABLE BARGAIN