His son is non compos mentis, and thereby incapable of making any conveyance in law; so that all his measures are disappointed.
When in Omaha her mental peculiarities were recognized and she was studied by a competent alienist who, however, was not willing to render a verdict of non compos mentis to the police.
Coke defines a lunatic as a "person who has sometimes his understanding and sometimes not, qui gaudet lucidis intervallis, and therefore he is called non compos mentis so long as he has not understanding" (Co.
It takes no note of the familiar fact, that every legislative provision, whether constitutional or statutory, which confers any discretionary power, is always confined in its operation to persons who are compos mentis.
What is the definition of a person non compos mentis?
Non compos mentis=--incapacity of to make will, p.
Either the old man's sane--compos mentis, don't you call it?
And, anyhow, his medical adviser tells me there is no reason to suppose that my old friend is not compos mentis.
Look here, old fellow, do you mean to assert that you are compos mentis?
Go and pick buttercups and daisies along with him for a few days, and then come back to me quite compos mentis, and we'll see what can be done.
As he moved awkwardly among them, some, who were squinting at him and his coarse apparel, supposed him non compos mentis.
I am loth to be troublesome; but, if you please to favour me, I desire to know of them whether they do admit there was an inquisition, and that she was found non compos mentis and did kill herself.
Lunacy is often the development of one idea, while, in other respects, the patient is compos mentis.
The case is the same, betwixt a king non compos mentis, and one who is nondum compos mentis; a distracted or an infant-king.
Ordered, that the culprit be considered non compos mentis, and that he be discharged, on finding security to keep the peace for the remainder of his natural life.
Albright and Compos both stepped to the rock and stood looking with those narrowed, concentrated eyes.
Presently Dick Compos stepped forward, leaned down and searched the wall at the left.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
