Incompetency

Of Officers. Lack of ability or fitness to discharge the required duty. Judges and jurors are said to be incompetent from having an interest in the subject matter. A judge is also incompetent to give judgment in a matter not within his jurisdiction. See "Jurisdiction." Of Witness. Want of legal capacity to testify. Of Evidence. Not proper to be received. Incompetency relates to the evidence itself, not to the fact to be proved thereby. In French Law. Inability or insufficiency of a judge to try a cause brought before him, proceeding from lack of jurisdiction.