sound health

Good health. A physical condition characterized by the absence of any grave, important, or serious disease; freedom from any ailment seriously affecting the health. 29 Am J Rev ed Ins § 746. As the term is generally used in life insurance policies providing that the insured must be in "sound health" at the date of the policy, it means good health. It is not to be taken literally. It does not mean perfect health, or imply absolute freedom from bodily infirmity or tendency to disease, but means generally the absence of any vice or disease in the constitution of a serious nature, or that has a direct tendency to shorten life, as contra-distinguished from a temporary ailment or indisposition. Anno: 40 ALR 662.