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Mental Competency (Topical Term)

Preferred form: Mental Competency
Used for/see from:
  • Competency, Mental
  • Incompetency, Mental
  • n: Competence
  • n: Competence, Mental
  • n: Incompetence, Mental
  • n: Mental Competence
  • n: Mental Incompetence
  • n: Mental Incompetency

in mental retard or organic or psychiat mental disord; coord IM with concomitant disord /psychol (IM); competency to consent: coord IM with INFORMED CONSENT (IM)

The ability to understand the nature and effect of the act in which the individual is engaged. (From Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed).

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