What is COMPETENT? Definition of COMPETENT in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
Duly qualified; answering all requirements; having sufficient ability or authority; possessing the requisite natural or legal qualifications; able; adequate; suitable; sufficient; capable; legally fit. Levee Dist. v. Jamison, 176 Mo. 557, 75 S.W. 679; In re Fichter's Estate, 279 N.Y. 597, 600, 155 Misc. 399. See, also, Incompetency.
A testator may be said to be "competent," if he has mental capacity to understand the nature of his act, to understand and recollect the nature and situation of his property and his relations to persons having claims on his bounty and whose interests are affected by his will. In re Smith's Estate, 200 Cal. 152, 252 P. 325, 328.
When generally applied to arbitrators, the term does not mean "expert." Home Ins. Co. v. Walter, Tex.Civ.App., 230 S.W. 723, 724.
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