I III

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Definition
"I III" does not constitute a recognized legal term, doctrine, or term of art in any common law, civil law, or statutory tradition. The character sequence appears to be a cataloguing artifact, formatting fragment, or indexing error — most likely a Roman numeral section marker ("I. III." or "I.iii.") stripped of its surrounding context during source processing. No definition can be responsibly assigned to this string. ---
Why It Matters in Research
Researchers encountering "I III" in a digitized legal corpus should treat it as a signal of source degradation rather than a substantive legal term. Several phenomena produce this kind of artifact: Optical character recognition (OCR) errors frequently misparse Roman numerals, section symbols, and enumeration markers — particularly in 19th- and early 20th-century legal texts where typeface irregularities are common. A phrase like "§ I.iii" or a section heading such as "Part I, Chapter III" can collapse into an unanchored string when formatting metadata is lost. The Black's Law Dictionary (2nd Ed.) Supplemental source fragment provided alongside this entry reinforces this diagnosis. The fragment begins mid-sentence ("erangement is accompanied with more or less of excitement...") and clearly belongs to a discussion of legal insanity or mental incompetence — likely an entry on INSANITY, MANIA, or a related concept. The "I III" label appears to be a corrupted section or page reference attached to that fragment, not a term being defined. When working with digitized historical legal dictionaries, researchers should be alert to: (1) truncated or headless entries that begin mid-definition; (2) Roman numeral strings that appear as standalone headwords; and (3) entries whose source fragment content does not correspond to the ostensible headword. In all three situations, the underlying substance — here, a discussion of mental derangement, hallucination, and mania — is what carries research value, not the corrupted label attached to it. If the underlying fragment is what you are researching, the relevant substantive entries to consult are INSANITY, LUNACY, MANIA, and NON COMPOS MENTIS. ---
Historical Dictionary Support
The source fragment associated with this entry in Black's Law Dictionary (2nd Ed.) Supplemental describes a condition in which mental derangement is accompanied by excitement, hallucinations, illusions, and a fixed belief in events or things that do not exist — with behavior conforming to those false beliefs. This language is characteristic of 19th-century legal and medical treatments of general mania as distinct from partial or moral insanity. The observation that "mania may be general, and affect all or mo[re]" suggests the fragment was drawing a distinction between general mania (affecting the whole mind) and monomania (affecting only a fixed idea or subject), a distinction that carried significant weight in competency and testamentary capacity cases of the era. The fragment does not support a definition of "I III" as a legal term. It supports research into the historical legal treatment of mental incapacity. ---
Encyclopedia Cross-Reference
The encyclopedia entries surfaced alongside this term reflect the Roman numeral pattern ("Article III," "I III") rather than substantive relevance to the source fragment. For research into the underlying subject matter of the fragment, no encyclopedia match is flagged. For researchers who arrived here through a constitutional or admiralty search: Article III Standing and Mootness in Constitutional Cases — The Law Mind Constitutional Law Encyclopedia The Federal Judiciary: Article III Courts, Tenure, and Salary Protection — The Law Mind Constitutional Law Encyclopedia ---
Related Terms
INSANITY LUNACY MANIA MONOMANIA NON COMPOS MENTIS TESTAMENTARY CAPACITY COMPETENCY
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Black's Law Dictionary (2nd Ed.) - Supplemental • 1910
erangement is accompanied with more or less of excitement. Sometimes the excitement amounts to a fury. The individual in such cases is subject to hallucinations and illusions. He is impressed with the reality of events which have never occurred, and of things which do not exist, and acts more or less in conformity with his belief in these particulars. The mania may be general, and affect all or most of the op-era tions of the mind; or it may be partial, and be confined to particular subjects. In tbe latter case it is generally termed 'monomania.'** In a more popular but less scientific sense, “mania” denotes a morbid or unnatural or ex-cessive craving, issuing in impulses of such fix-ity and intensity that they cannot be resisted by the patient in the enfeebled state of the will and blurred moral concepts which accompany the disease. It is used in this sense in such compounds as “homicidal mania,” “dipsomania," and the like.—Hypomania. A mild or slight-ly developed form or type of mania.—Mono-mania. A perversion or derangement of tbe reason or understanding with reference to a single subject or small claas of subjects, with considerable mental excitement and delusions,^ while, as to all matters outs'de the range of the' peculiar infirmity, the intellectual faculties remain unimpaired and function normal y. Hopps v. People, 31 111. 390, 83 Am. Dec. 231; In re Black’s Estate, Myr. Prob. (Cal.) 27; owing’s Case, 1 Bland (Md.) 388, 17 Am. Dec. 311; Merritt v. State, 39 Tex. Cr. R. 70, 45 S. W. 21; In re Gannon’s will, 2 Misc. Rep. 329, 21 N. Y. Supp. 960.—Paranoia. Monomania in general, or the obsession of a delusion or sys-tem of delusions which dominate without de-stroying the mental capacity, leaving the patient sane as to all matters outside tbeir particular range, though subject to perverted ideas, false beliefs, and uncontrollable impulses within that range; and particularly, the form of monomania where the delusion is as to wrongs, injuries, or persecution inflicted upon the patient and his consequently justifiable resentment cr r^venee. winters v. State, 61 N. J. Law, 613, 41 Atl. 220; People v. Braun, 158 N. Y. 558. 53 N. E. 629; Flanagan v. State, 103 Ga. 619, 30 S. E. 650. Paranoia is called by Kraepelin “progres-sive systematized insanity,” because the delusions of being wronged or of persecution and of excessive self-esteem develop quite slowly, without independent disturbances of emotional life or of tbe will becoming prominent, and because there occurs regularly a mental working up of the delusion to form a delusionary view of the world,—in fact, a system,—leading to a derangement of tbe stand-point which the patient takes up towards the events of life.—Homicidal mania. A form of mania in which the morbid state of the mind manifests itself in an irresist-able inclination or impulse to commit homicide, prompted usually by an insane delusion either as to the necessity of self-defense or the avenging of injuries, or as to tbe patient being the appointed instrument of a superhuman justice. Com. v. Sayre, 5 wkly. Notes Cas. (Pa.) 425; Com. v. Mosier, 4 Pa. 266.—Methomania. An irre-sistible craving for alcoholic or other intoxicating liquors, manifested by the periodical re-currence of drunken debauches. State v. Savage, 89 Ala. 1, 7 South. 183, 7 L. R. A. 42B —Dipsomania. Practically the same thing as metho-mania, except that the irresistible impulse to intoxication is extended by some writers to in-clude the use of such drugs as opium or cocaine as well as alcohol. See State v. Reidell, 9 Houat. (Del.) 470, 14 Atl. 550; Ballard v. State, 19 Neb. 609, 28 N. W. 271.—Mania a potn. Delirium tremens, or a species of tem-porary insanity resulting as a secondary effect produced by tbe excessive and protracted indub

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