Term: insanity plea: (criminal law) a plea in which the defendant claims innocence due to mental incompetence at the time
Broader: plea: (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) | Unrelated: cartesian coordinate system: a coordinate system for which the coordinates of a point are its distances from a set perpendicular lines that intersect at the origin of the system
Broader: plea: (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) | Unrelated: nahuatl: a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico
Broader: plea: (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) | Unrelated: cession: the act of ceding
Broader: plea: (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) | Unrelated: stuffing: a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
Broader: plea: (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) | Unrelated: herpes simplex encephalitis: common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes
Broader: plea: (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) | Unrelated: floccose chanterelle: a mildly poisonous fungus with a fruiting body shaped like a hollow trumpet
Broader: plea: (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) | Unrelated: scirpus: rhizomatous perennial grasslike herbs
Broader: plea: (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) | Unrelated: phaethon: type genus of the Phaethontidae
Broader: plea: (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) | Unrelated: mead: made of fermented honey and water
Broader: plea: (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) | Unrelated: intransitivity: the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb