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 So. 550, 551 (La. 1906).

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