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MELANCHOLIA Definition & Legal Meaning

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In medical jurisprudence. A kind of mental unsoundness char- acterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill- grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideaa Webster. See INSANITY.

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