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FIT Definition & Legal Meaning

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In medical jurisprudence. An attack or spasm of muscular convulsions generally attended with loss of self-control and of consciousness; particularly, such attacks occurring in epilepsy. In a more general sense, the period of an acute attack of any disease, physical or mental, as, a fit of insanity. See Gunter v. State, 83 Ala. 96, 3South. 600.

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