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MARC view
Mental Competency (Topical Term)
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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