Erotic Mania
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In medical jurisprudence. A name given to a morbid activity of the sexuar propensity. It. is a disease or morbid affection of the mind, which fills it with a crowd of voluptuous images, and hurries its victim to acts of the grossest licentiousness, in the absence of any lesion of the intellectual powers. See "Mania." Distinct from "nymphomania" (g. v.) ERRANT Lat. errare, to wander). Wandering. Justices in eyre were formerly said to be errant (itinerant). Cowell. ERRATICUM (Law Lat.)
In old law. A waif or stray. Cowell. ERRONICE (Lat.) Erroneously; through mistake. Yelv. 83.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
EROTOMANIA. In Medical Jurisprudence. A name given to amorbid activity of the sexual propensity. It is a disease or morbid affection of the mind, which fills it with a crowd of voluptuous images, and hurries its victim to acts of the grossest licentiousness, often in the absence of any lesion of the intellectual powers. It is to be distinguished from Nymphomania and Satyriasis. See Krafft-Ebing, Psycopathia Sexualis, Chaddock's ed.; Mania. ERRANT (Lat. errare, to wander). Wandering. Justices in eyre were formerly said to be errant (itinerant). Cowell.