Dotage is that feebleness of the mental faculties -which proceeds from old age. It is a diminution or decay of that in-tellectual power which was once possessed. It is the slow approach of death; of that irrevocable cessation, without hurt or dis-ease, of all the functions which once be-longed to the living animal. The external functions gradually cease; the senses waste away hy degrees; and the mind is imper-ceptibly visited by decay, owing’s Case, 1 Bland (Md.) 389, 17 Am. Dec. 311
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
