manifest incapacity

manifest incapacity
Obvious incapacity. In reference to a physician, a want of power to comprehend or to act, so obvious that no proof is necessary to establish it other than proof of the act or omission itself. Yoshizawa v Hewitt (CA9 Hawaii) 52 F2d 411, 79 ALR 317.

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