Recurrent insanity

Insanity which returns from time to time, hence equivalent to "lunacy" (see supra) in its common-law sense, as a mental disorder broken by lucid intervals. There is no presumption that fitful and exceptional attacks of insanity are continuous.

Leache v. State, 22 Tex. App. 279, 3 S. W. 538, 58 Am. Rep. 638,