Mental capaclty; the mental power to review and recognize tbe successive states of consciousness in thelr consecutive order. Thls word, as used in Jurisprudence to denote one of the psychological elements necessary in the making of a valid will or contract or the commission of a crime, irn-plies the mental power to conduct a consecutive train of thought, or an orderly planning of affairs, by recalling correctly the past states of the mlnd and past events, and ar-rangiug them in thelr due order of sequence and in their logical relations with the events and mental states of the present
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
