incompetency

incompetency definition - legal

n

  1. Absence of legal capacity to perform certain acts, such as testifying at a trial.
  2. Absence of the legal capacity to understand the charges against one and to participate in oneÂ’s own trial.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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