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Definition of Incompetency
1. Noun. Lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications.
Generic synonyms: Inability, Unfitness
Antonyms: Competence
Derivative terms: Incompetent, Incompetent, Incompetent, Incompetent, Incompetent, Incompetent, Incompetent
Definition of Incompetency
1. Noun. The condition of being incompetent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incompetency
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Medical Definition of Incompetency
1. 1. The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labour, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. "Some inherent incompetency." 2. Want of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as a juror, or of a judge to try a cause. Synonym: Inability, insufficiency, inadequacy, disqualification, incapability, unfitness. Origin: Cf. F. Incompetence. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incompetency
Literary usage of Incompetency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps, Andrew Amos (1838)
"In treating of the incompetency of witnesses from interest, it is proposed to
... Of the rule of incompetency from interest considered with reference to the ..."
2. The Principles of the Law of Evidence: With Elementary Rules for Conducting by William Mawdesley Best, John Archibald Russell, Appleton Morgan (1882)
"132 incompetency 132 Not presumed 133 How ascertained . ... 137 incompetency from
interest 137 incompetency from infamy of character . ..."
3. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"MITRAL incompetency. Etiology.—Insufficiency of the mitral valve ensues: (a) From
... The effects of incompetency of the mitral segment upon the heart and ..."
4. A General View of the Criminal Law of England by James Fitzjames Stephen (1863)
"Cases of incompetency. 1. The incompetency of the person accused and of his wife
... incompetency from want of understanding. 3. incompetency from want of ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Agency in Contract and Tort: Including Special by George Louis Reinhard (1902)
"Causes of incompetency.—incompetency to contract is generally traceable to two
kinds of causes ... When incompetency is due to some natural cause or causes, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Practice of the Court of Chancery: With an Appendix of by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour (1843)
"I. General incompetency. The grounds of disqualification under this head are, 1st.
... These grounds of incompetency we do not propose to enter into, ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"Statutory regulations removing the incompetency of persons convicted of crime.—The
common-law incompetency of persons convicted of crime to testify as ..."
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