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What does non compos mentis mean?

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Adjective
  1. (law, but also seeing wider use) Insane; not of sound mind; not in control of oneself.
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Sarojini took particular pains to empress it upon me that Chavigny is non compos mentis.
The duke is in such state of intoxication most of the time that he is virtually non compos mentis.
That either husband or wife is a hopeless lunatic or non compos mentis.
In light of charges of High Treason, Louis Riel's Defence Counsel pleaded non compos mentis, not guilty by reason of insanity.
Only 16.7 percent of them are non compos mentis, or, in football terms, nutty as a fruitcake.

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