Stupidity
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In medical jurisprudence. That state of the mind which cannot perceive and embrace the data presented to it by the senses, and therefore the stupid_ person can, in general, form no correct judgment. It is a want of the perceptive powers.
Ray, Med. Jur. c, 3, § 40,
See Imbecility.
STUPRUM (Lat.) In Roman law. The criminal sexual intercourse which took place between a man and a single woman, maid, or widow, who before lived honestly.
Inst. 4. 18. 4; Dig. 48. 5. 6; Id. 50. 16. 101; 1 Bouv. Inst. Theolo. ps. 3, quaest. 2, art. 2, p. 252,