Moral Insanity

In Medical Juriprudence. A morbid perversion of the moral feelings, affections. Inclinations, temper, habits, and moral disposition, without any notable lesion of the intellect or knowing and reasoning faculties, and particularly without any maniacal hallucination. Prichard, art. Insanity, in Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine. ' A disorder which affects the feelings and affections, or what are termed the moral powers in contradistinction to those of the understanding or Intellect. 3 Witth. A B. 2G9. For a discussion on this subject and its legal relations, see Insanity; Mania.

A morbid perversion of the feelings, affections, or propensities, but without any illusions or derangement of the intellectual faculties; irresistible impulse or an incapacity to resist the prompting of the passions, though accompanied by the power of discerning the moral or immoral character of the act. Moral insanity is not admitted as a bar to civil or criminal responsibility for the patient's acts, unless there is also shown to be intellectual disturbance, as manifested by insane delusions or the other recognized criteria of legal insanity. Leache v. State, 22 Tex. App. 279, 3 S. W. 539, 58 Am. Rep. 638; In re Forman's Will, 54 Barb. (N. Y.) 291; State v. Leehman, 2 S. D. 171, 49 N. W. 3. The term "emotional insanity" or mania transitoria applies to the case of one in the possession of his ordinary reasoning faculties who allows his passions to convert him into a temporary maniac. Mutual L. Ins. Co. v. Terry, 15 Wall. 580, 583, 21 In Ed. 236,

Defined under Insanity in Black's Law Dictionary.

In medical jurisprudence. A derangement of the moral system; a morbid condition, in which the passions, appetites, inclinations, and moral dispositions have eseaped from the control of the will and the conscience, and are porvert. eee ed to immoral acts or uses, although tle facultics of perception, reason, and judgment remain normal, or nearly so, and there is no especial hallucination or illusion. Klepte mania is an example of this condition. Incapacity, from disease, to control one’s coxnduct according to one’s knowledge; uncontrollable morbid impulse; disability of the will to refrain from what one knows is wrong and punishable; a morbid perversion of the affections, inclinations, and temper, independent of any disease or delusion operating directly on the intellect. Abbott, >