Definition of DELIRIUM TREMENS in Black's Law Dictionary 4th Edition – Legal dictionary – Glossary of legal terms.
Definition of DELIRIUM TREMENS
A disorder of the nervous system, involving the brain and setting up an attack of temporary delusional insanity, sometimes attended with violent excitement or mania, caused by excessive and long continued indulgence in alcoholic liquors, or by the abrupt cessation of such use after a protracted debauch. Horn v. Commonwealth, 292 Ky. 587, 167 S.W.2d 58, 61; Hartin v. Hysee Inghram Tire Co., 153 Pa.Super. 121, 33 A.2d 471, 473. See Insanity.
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