Dotage — Law Dictionary

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Dotage is that feebleness of the mental faculties which proceeds from old age. It is a diminution or decay of that intellectual power which was once possessed. It is the slow approach of death; of that irrevocable cessation, without hurt or disease, of all the functions which once belonged to the living animal. 1 Bland, Ch. (Md.) 389.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Mental feebleness in old age.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

That feehleness of the mental faculties which proceeds from old ag< diminution or decay of that intellectual power which was once possessed. 1 Bland, Ch. 380. See Dementia.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Dotage is that feebleness of the mental faculties which proceeds from old age. It is a diminution or decay of that intellectual power which was once possessed. It is the slow approach of death; of that irrevocable cessation, without hurt or disease, of all the functions which once belonged to the living animal. The external functions gradually cease; the senses waste away by degrees; and the mind is imperceptibly visited by decay. Owing's Case, 1 Bland (Md.) 389, 17 Am. Dec. 311.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Dotage is that feebleness of the mental faculties which proceeds from old age, Itisadiminution or decay of that intellectual power which was once possessed. It is the slow approach of death; of that irrevocable cessation, without hurt or disease, of all the funetions which once belonged to the living animal. The external functions gradually cease; the senses waste away by degrees; and the mind is impereeptibly visited by decay. 1 Bland, 389.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Dementia, Senile.