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What does compos mentis mean?

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Adjective
  1. (law) Of sound mind, sane; thus criminally responsible for one's eventual wrongdoing.
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In light of charges of High Treason, Louis Riel's Defence Counsel pleaded non compos mentis, not guilty by reason of insanity.
Sarojini took particular pains to empress it upon me that Chavigny is non compos mentis.
If I were truly compos mentis, I would have phoned the police two hours ago.
Lunacy is often the development of one idea, while, in other respects, the patient is compos mentis.
But the life changes, the youngness time passes and the body begins to support on other properties that are inside of its compos mentis.
The duke is in such state of intoxication most of the time that he is virtually non compos mentis.

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