- sound mind and memory
- See sound and disposing mind and memory.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
sound mind and memory
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sound mind and memory — When making a will, the ability to understand in general what one owns, one s family relationships, and the meaning and effect of the will. Category: Wills, Trusts & Estates → Estates, Executors & Probate Court Category: Wills, Trusts & Estates → … Law dictionary
mind and memory — A term of art much used by the legal profession. At common law, mind and memory are convertible terms on the reasoning that without memory there can be no mind, and the person would be the mere recipient of a succession of present sensations,… … Ballentine's law dictionary
sound and disposing mind and memory — n. Language often used in wills to mean the mental capacity necessary to create a will. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 … Law dictionary
disposing mind and memory — See: sound mind and memory Category: Wills, Trusts & Estates → Estates, Executors & Probate Court Category: Wills, Trusts & Estates → Wills Nolo’s Plain English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009 … Law dictionary
sound and disposing mind and memory — Testamentary capacity. Such mind and memory as enables testator to know and understand business in which he is engaged at time of making will. Farmers Union Bank of Henning v. Johnson, 27 Tenn.App. 342, 181 S.W.2d 369, 374. See also capacity, and … Black's law dictionary
sound and disposing mind and memory — A matter of the possession of sanity. Campbell v Campbell, 130 111 466, 22 NE 620. A testator is of sound and disposing mind and memory, if, at the time of making his will, he has sufficient mental capacity to be able to understand the act he is… … Ballentine's law dictionary
Mister Mind and the Monster Society of Evil — Mister Mind Mister Mind, in artwork from the cover of The Power of Shazam! #40 (1997). Art by Jerry Ordway. Publication information Publisher … Wikipedia
of sound mind — adjective of sound mind, memory, and understanding; in law, competent to go to trial • Syn: ↑compos mentis • Similar to: ↑sane … Useful english dictionary
memory — The word as used in Blackstone and other ancient authorities, appeared to be synonymous with mind , whereas the word memory in modern times is used in a more restricted sense of recollection of past events rather than the general state of one s… … Black's law dictionary
memory — The word as used in Blackstone and other ancient authorities, appeared to be synonymous with mind , whereas the word memory in modern times is used in a more restricted sense of recollection of past events rather than the general state of one s… … Black's law dictionary
