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Presumption of sanity
Legal principle that a person is assumed sane unless proven otherwise From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The presumption of sanity is a legal presumption. Its effect is that a person who faces criminal trial is presumed sane until the opposite is proved. Similarly, a person is presumed to have testamentary capacity until there is evidence to undermine that presumption.
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