Senile Dementia
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A gradual impale ment of the mental faculties by reason of physical decay and resulting in second childhood.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Insanity marked by weakness indicating a mental breaking down in advance of bodily decay. See 36 W. Va. 563, 15 S. E. 146.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
See Dementia.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
That peculiar decay of the mental faculties which occurs in extreme old age, and in many cases much earlier, whereby the person is reduced to second childhood, and becomes sometimes wholly Incompetent to enter into any binding contract or even to execute a wlll. It is the recurrente of second childhood by mere decay. 1 Redf. Wllls, 63. See Insanity.