declararlo enajenado

English translation: declare him incapacitated

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Spanish term or phrase:declararlo enajenado
English translation:declare him incapacitated
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01:37 Aug 2, 2015
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: declararlo enajenado
Please see below thanks (this person was later locked up in a psychiatric home (the one who was enajenado due to suppoised mental illness) - disposal doesnt fit here many thanks

Los conocimientos de medicina de este último y la colaboración que obtiene de sus colegas del gremio médico, le
han permitido jugar a su antojo con la salud de sus consanguíneos inmediatos del árbol familiar originario.
Como señalé anteriormente, ante mi emplazamiento de por qué habia procedido a allanar las libertades civiles de xx para declararlo enajenado y hacerse su único tutor, la sola respuesta recibida de xx, originalmente obtenida a través del correo electrónico, de marzo de 2011 antes aludido y, luego, reiterada de viva voz en Londres, fue la de que "sus padres le pidieron que se encargara de él”.
EirTranslations
Ireland
Local time: 16:42
declare him incapacitated
Explanation:
http://thelawdictionary.org/article/how-to-legally-declare-s...
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Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
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thx
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2declare him incapacitated
Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
5declare him deranged
Colin Speed
4declare him mentally ill/insane
Barbara Cochran, MFA


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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
declare him deranged


Explanation:
enajenado means deranged, and in this context is used with the verb declare

Example sentence(s):
  • Ferguson, having failed as an arm chair economist in his debate with Krugman, now appoints himself an arm chair psychoanalyst of Krugman and proceeds without interviewing Krugman to declare him deranged.

    Reference: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/05/niall-fergusons-l...
Colin Speed
Portugal
Local time: 16:42
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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36 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
declare him mentally ill/insane


Explanation:
My translation would be two example of the standard terminology used by mental health professionals.

Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 11:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 52
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
declare him incapacitated


Explanation:
http://thelawdictionary.org/article/how-to-legally-declare-s...

Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
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Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 20
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thx

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jennifer Levey: Called '(legally) incompetent' in some jurisdictions.
19 hrs
  -> Thank you Robin

agree  lugoben
20 hrs
  -> Thank you. Lugoben
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