M'Naghten test

M'Naghten test
/meuhk nawt"n/
a rule that defines a person as legally insane when that person cannot distinguish right from wrong.
[after Daniel M'Naghten (d. 1865), defendant in a murder case adjudicated in England in 1843]

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