non compos

Example Sentences

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When you watch it, you can see quite clearly, with the benefit of hindsight, that he is non compos mentis.

From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2010

In London, a coroner found that the late Sidney Corrall, acquisitive but non compos mentis, had swallowed and kept all to himself 201 pennies, florins, shillings, halfpennies, sixpences, half crowns, and threepenny bits.

From Time Magazine Archive

If anyone proposes another match race between these two super horses,” wrote a reporter after the race, “henceforth, he will be tried in the morning for treason, mutiny, mopery and non compos mentis.'''’

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

If you want to go to law about it, I think you could get an injunction against us—or, rather, Mrs. Perkins could—on the ground that you were non compos at the time.

From The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces by Bangs, John Kendrick

I might have proved myself non compos mentis; but that involved my making a fool of myself in public before a jury, and I have too much dignity for that, I can tell you.

From The Water Ghost and Others by Bangs, John Kendrick