☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Fatuus

In early common law, a natural fool or person of congenital mental deficiency, distinguished from a person who becomes non compos mentis through illness, injury, or old age. The Crown held perpetual guardianship over the fatuus and their estate.

Etymology: Latin 'fatuus' (foolish, silly, idiotic) · Category: English Legal History · Source: Prerogativa Regis (1324); Bracton, 'De Legibus'
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