• Non compos mentis is a Latin legal phrase that translates to "of unsound mind": nōn ("not") prefaces compos mentis, meaning "having control of one's mind...
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  • ˈpærɪbəs/ compos mentis having command of mind Of sound mind. Also used in the negative "Non compos mentis", meaning "Not of sound mind". /ˈkɒmpɒs ˈmɛntɪs/ condicio...
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  • exclusively synonymous with compos mentis (Latin: compos, having mastery of, and Latin: mentis, mind), in contrast with non compos mentis, or insanity, meaning...
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  • period. Non compos mentis (Latin) is a legal term meaning "not of sound mind". Non compos mentis derives from the Latin non meaning "not", compos meaning...
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    current concept of sanity is compos mentis ("sound of mind"), and a euphemistic term for insanity is non compos mentis. In law, mens rea means having...
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  • Records and released four albums while active, the most recent being Non Compos Mentis (2010). Deathbound formed in 1995 under the name of Twilight. They released...
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    Act of 2012 into law on December 28, 2012. "Of unsound mind" or non compos mentis are alternatives to "lunatic", the most conspicuous term used for insanity...
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  • with Addy. He pleads guilty to killing the lobbyist and declares Non compos mentis, which leads him into a mental asylum rather than to prison. The episode...
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  • non compos mentis became in the last three decades of the century the only suicide verdict that Norwich Coroners returned. ... Non compos mentis had become...
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  • be a reflex action. (The person engaging in the conduct must also be compos mentis or in sound mind and of sober senses, not unconscious or intoxicated...
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  • Midnight (USA) 2010: Traveler (USA) 2010: Avantgarde (USA) 2010: Non Compos Mentis (USA) 2010: Little Big Boy (Denmark) 2010: Ingression (Russia) 2011:...
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  • decades ... "She wished she had asked him about his war when he was still compos mentis. She might have been able to use his memories as the basis of a novel...
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    characteristic lack of self-awareness. He had been diagnosed as non compos mentis by a doctor, and in his foggy netherworld the phrase was a matter of...
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    pulling anyone's leg," said opera historian Albert Innaurato. "She was compos mentis, not a lunatic. She was a very proper, complex individual." As an anonymous...
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    killed Schlick with a pistol. The court declared Nelböck to be fully compos mentis; he confessed to the act and was detained without any resistance, but...
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  • arrived at the scene of the crime. The court declared Nelböck to be fully compos mentis, he confessed to the act, was detained without any resistance, but was...
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  • authority to grant a pardon. Juveniles aged 15-17 and adult convicts in non compos mentis can receive sentences ranging from 2 to 12 years of imprisonment. Typically...
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    attended St Andrew's Cathedral School. In 1993 he began a funk band Compos Mentis with his brother Peter, family friend Mike McCarthy and bass player...
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  • "Skyrocket" Jake Armstrong "Virgin Criminal" 2022 Rapscallion Guy Tyzack "Compos Mentis" "Bellarine Ballerina" "Living Under A Rock" (Live at the Forum) — Jason...
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  • cause is incorrectly identified. non compos mentis not in control of the mind See compos mentis. Also rendered non compos sui (not in control of himself)....
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    seizure), insanus (unwell, mentally ill), non suae sanae mentis (not of right mind), and non compos mentis, which has endured in modern legal language. The terms...
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  • beat the count. Reiss made Fury dance to his left to check if he was compos mentis, which he was, and Reiss called for the action to continue. Wilder was...
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  • cause is incorrectly identified. non compos mentis not in control of the mind See compos mentis. Also rendered non compos sui (not in control of himself)....
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  • Bass and keyboards on Mord's Imperium Magnum Infernalis (2006, Non Compos Mentis) Vocals and keyboards on Celestia's Frigidiis Apotheosia : Abstinencia...
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  • Ellison's opinion of most actors, whom he described as "dips — strictly non compos mentis." When Culp first met Ellison at the Bradbury building location for...
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  • doctors" compos mentis in control of the mind Describes someone of sound mind. Sometimes used ironically. Also a legal principle, non compos mentis (not in...
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  • invoked by the King's Bench in the sixteenth century in cases of non compos mentis adults. The notion dates from at least 1608, as recorded in Coke's report...
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  • under the age of twelve years at the passing of this act, and who is compos mentis, shall, after the age of fifteen years, be a citizen of this commonwealth...
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    stated that he was "widely known" by the end of his career to be non compos mentis. In August 1999, Thurmond underwent surgery for an enlarged prostate...
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  • be a reflex action. (The person engaging in the conduct must also be compos mentis or in sound mind and of sober senses, not unconscious or intoxicated...
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