Imbecility
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
Without strength, impotent. In a petition for divorce by a wife for- corporal imbecility in the husband, it is necessary to show a permanent, incurable impotency to consummate the marriage. " Corporal imbecility " does not, ex vi termini, import such impotency.' See Divorce. On mental imbecility, see ' Insanity.