Now Compos Mentis

Lat. Not sound of mind; insane. ‘This is a very general term, embracing all varieties of mental derangement. Coke has enumerated four different elagsey of persons who are deemedin law to be non eamery, but by the act of God has lost it; third, a lunatic, lunaticous qui gaudet lucidis intervallis, who sometimes is of good sound mind and memory, and sometimes non compos mentis; fourth, ene who ia non compos mentis by his own act, as adru:kard. Co. Litt., 27a; 4 Coke, 124; 6 Neb. 404. Non conredentur ctiationes priusquem exprimatur super qua re fieri debet citatio. 12 Coke, 47. Summonses should not be grantad before it is expressed on what matter the summons ought to be mads. NON CONCESSit. Lat. He did not grant. The name ofa plea deaying a grunt, which could be made only by a stranger.