ignoring, n. Family law. A parent’s or caregiver’s pattern of depriving a child of essential intellectual or emotional stimulation or of otherwise stifling emotional growth and intellectual development, essentially by being unavailable. Cf. ISOLATING; REJECTING.
disregard, n. 1. The action of ignoring or treating without proper respect or consideration. 2. The state of being ignored or treated without proper respect or consideration. — disregard, vb. reckless disregard. 1. Conscious indifference to the consequences of an act. [Cases: Automobiles 175(1); Negligence 274. C.J.S. Motor Vehicles §§ 756–766; Negligence§§ 104–105, 109.] 2.
licentious (lI-sen-sh[schwa]s), adj. Lacking or ignoring moral or legal restraint, esp. in sexual activity; lewd; lascivious. — licentiousness, n.
rejecting, n. A parent’s or caregiver’s pattern of refusing to acknowledge a child’s worth or legitimate needs. Cf. ISOLATING; IGNORING.
isolating, n. Family law. A parent’s or caregiver’s pattern of cutting a child off from normal social experiences, preventing the child from forming friendships, or making the child believe that he or she is alone in the world. Cf. IGNORING; REJECTING.
connivance (k[schwa]-nI-v[schwa]nts), n. 1. The act of indulging or ignoring another’s wrongdoing, esp. when action should be taken to prevent it. 2. Family law. As a defense to divorce, one spouse’s corrupt consent, express or implied, to have the other commit adultery or some other act of sexual misconduct. • Consent is an essential element
unit rule. 1. Securities. A method of valuing securities by multiplying the total number of shares held by the sale price of one share sold on a licensed stock exchange, ignoring all other facts about value. 2. Parliamentary law. A convention’s rule that lets a delegation’s majority cast the entire delegation’s votes. Cf. instructed delegate
scotal (skot-[schwa]l). Hist. An extortionary practice by which forest officers forced people to patronize the officers’ alehouses, often in exchange for the officers’ ignoring forest offenses. • This practice was prohibited in 1217 by the Charter of the Forest, ch. 7. — Also spelled scotale (skot-ayl).
irresistible-impulse test. Criminal law. A test for insanity, holding that a person is not criminally responsible for an act if mental disease prevented that person from controlling potentially criminal conduct. • The few jurisdictions that have adopted this test have combined it with the McNaghten rules. — Also termed control test; volitional test. See INSANITY
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