Imbecile

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Persons in whose case there exists from birth or from an early age mental deficiency not amounting to idiocy, yet so pronounced that they are incapable of managing themselves or their affairs, or, in the case of children, being taught to do so. (Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, s. 1.)

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