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Definition of Incompetents
1. incompetent [n] - See also: incompetent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incompetents
Literary usage of Incompetents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the United States Since the Civil War by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (1922)
"Illiterates, incompetents, defaulters, embezzlers and other felons occupied
profitable posts as rewards for partisan service. They were "pestiferous ulcers ..."
2. New Probate Law and Practice: With Annotations and Forms for Use in Alaska by William Smithers Church, Curtis Hillyer (1920)
"177.1 Procedure for admission of incompetents, other than insane persons, into
the home for ... GUARDIANSHIP OF INSANE PERSONS AND OTHER incompetents. 1. ..."
3. Applied socialism: a study of the application of socialistic principles to by John Spargo (1912)
"The immature child, the aged, the sick and infirm would be exempted from labor
as incompetents. The maintenance of these incompetents would, as now, ..."
4. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"APPOINTMENT FOR INSANE PERSONS AND incompetents. — Where the appointment is sought
upon any ground other than the infancy of the intended ward, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Torts: Or the Wrongs which Arise Independently of by Thomas McIntyre Cooley, John Lewis (1907)
"... cannot be guilty of contributory negligence," but no one is bound to take
special care for such incompetents without he has notice of their infirmity.18 ..."
6. Annotated Consolidated Laws of the State of New York: As Amended to January by Clarence Frank Birdseye, Robert Cushing Cumming, Frank Bixby Gilbert, New York (State). (1916)
"incompetents. Code of Civil Procedure. § 2342. Idem; may be compelled to file
the same, or render an additional account, et cetera.—In the month of February ..."
7. Surety Bonds: Nature, Functions, Underwriting Requirements by Edward Clark Lunt (1922)
"Committees, Guardians, and Conservators, of incompetents People unable to take
proper care of themselves or their affairs by reason of idiocy, lunacy, ..."
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