Incompetency

Lack of ability, legal qualification, or fitness to discharge the required duty.. As applied to evidence, tle word “incompetent” means not proper to be received; inadiuissible, as distinguished from that which the court should admit for the consideration of the jury, though they may not find it worthy of credence. In French law. Inability or insufficiency of a judge to try a cause brought before him, proceeding from lack of jurisdiction.