M'NAGHTEN TEST


Meaning of M'NAGHTEN TEST in English

/meuhk nawt"n/

a rule that defines a person as legally insane when that person cannot distinguish right from wrong.

[ after Daniel M'Naghten (d. 1865), defendant in a murder case adjudicated in England in 1843 ]

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