IDIOT

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In contemplation of Law, one who has been born totally deficient in understanding, or has lost it by sickne , so as to neve no lucid intervals: lunatic, properly speaking, one who has lucid intervals. The care of idiots and lunatics is a branch of the prerogative of the crown, nnd exercised ordinarily by the chancellor. By the common law, persons were found idiots or lunatics by verdict of a jury on a writ de idiot a or de lunatico inquirendp; but in later times, by corais lamed, on petition from near relations, under the great teal Commi ions are also frequently i ued to determine not specifically whether the party be an idiot, tec., but whether he be under such imbecility as to require protection in the management of his affairs; and such is now the is then more entrusted ordinary to course.the committee The custody of the of estate.an idiot's estate 1WOTICON. (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A word of frequent use in Germany, signifying a dictionary confined to a particular dialect, or containing words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country. [s. 603]