hereditary insanity

hereditary insanity
Mental illness of a character to be transmitted from parent to child or later descendant. "There is nothing unreasonable in referring wild, furious and unnatural actions, not otherwise accounted for, to the aberrations of a mind the reflux of that of a crazy parent." People v Smith, 31 Cal 467; Prewitt v State, 106 Miss 82, 6 ALR 1476, 1478, 63 So 330.

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