DURHAM RULE


Meaning of DURHAM RULE in English

Function: noun

Etymology: Monte Durham, 20th century American litigant

Date: 1955

: a legal hypothesis under which a person is not judged responsible for a criminal act that is attributed to a mental disease or defect

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