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61capacity — Legal qualification (i.e. legal age), competency, power or fitness. Mental ability to understand the nature and effects of one s acts …
62diminished capacity — di·min·ished capacity /də mi nisht / n 1: an abnormal mental condition that renders a person unable to form the specific intent necessary for the commission of a crime (as first degree murder) but that does not amount to insanity – called also… …
63Testamentary capacity — Wills, trusts and estates …
64Diminished capacity in United States law — provides for reduced penalties for certain offenders with mental illness. The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines provide, A downward departure may be warranted if (1) the defendant committed the offense while suffering from a significantly reduced mental …
65criminal capacity — Accountability for committing crime; e.g., child under 7 years of age lacks criminal capacity. Application of Gault, 387 U.S. 1, 87 S.Ct. 1428, 1438, 18 L.Ed.2d 527. + Legal qualifications necessary to commit a crime such as voluntariness of the… …
66criminal capacity — Accountability for committing crime; e.g., child under 7 years of age lacks criminal capacity. Application of Gault, 387 U.S. 1, 87 S.Ct. 1428, 1438, 18 L.Ed.2d 527. + Legal qualifications necessary to commit a crime such as voluntariness of the… …
67diminished capacity doctrine — This doctrine recognizes that although an accused was not suffering from a mental disease or defect when the offense was committed sufficient to exonerate him from all criminal responsibility, his mental capacity may have been diminished by… …
68diminished capacity doctrine — This doctrine recognizes that although an accused was not suffering from a mental disease or defect when the offense was committed sufficient to exonerate him from all criminal responsibility, his mental capacity may have been diminished by… …
69testamentary capacity — The capacity to accomplish the purpose of making a valid will as determined objectively from the standpoint of the purpose. The capacity of a person making a will to know the natural objects of his bounty, to comprehend the kind and character of… …
70criminal capacity — The capacity to commit a crime, that is, legal mental capacity, whereunder responsibility for the commission of an act prohibited by law and susceptibility to punishment provided by law attaches to the wrongdoer. 21 Am J2d Crim L § 26.… …
