senility

senility definition - legal

n

A mental feebleness or insanity that results from old age and is both incurable and progressive. A person so afflicted is not capable of entering into a binding contract or of executing a will. See also competent and incompetent.

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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