Impotence
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Impotence
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Meaning of Impotence
In medical jurisprudence , the inability to copulate, and is properly used of the male; but has been used synonymously with sterility. In the law of divorce , the term means the inability to engage in, or lack of capacity for, normal and complete sexual intercourse. Dolan v Dolan (Me.) 259 A.2d 32, 52 A.L.R.3d 577; and not merely incapacity for procreation. Payne v Pavne, 49 N. W. 230; Griffith v Griffith, 44 N. E. 820, 162 III. 368.
Impotence Alternative Definition
In medical jurisprudence. The incapacity for copulation or propagating the species. It has also been used as synonymous with "sterility." The principal use of the term is as a ground of divorce, and as so used it signifies "the irremediable physical incapacity of one of the parties to a marriage for any reasonable sexual connection with the other." 1 Bish. Mar. & Div. § 766. To avoid impotence, there must be capacity for "copula vera," copulation in its natIMPOTENS ural and ordinary meaning, and not merely of incipient and imperfect coition. 33 Md. 405.
Synonyms of Impotence
noun
debilitation
debility
defenselessness
failure
feebleness
forcelessness
helplessness
imbecillitas
impotency
impuissance
inability
inadequacy
incapability
incapacitation
incapacity
incompetence
incompetency
ineffectiveness
ineffectuality
ineffectualness
inefficaciousness
inefficacy
inefficiency
ineptitude
infirmitas
insufficiency
lack of power
lack of strength
powerlessness
strengthlessness
unfitness
weakness
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Imbecility
Inspection Of Person
Impotence