emotional incapacity
emotional incapacity. 1. The inability to control one’s emotions or express appropriate emotions because of a mental disorder. 2. Hist. Evidence. (Of a witness) hostility or partiality rooted in bias, corruption, or interest. • At common law, an interested witness was not competent to testify on grounds of emotional incapacity. See State v. Craft, 41 […]
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