{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:315","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Definition","number":"315","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/315/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK I - PERSONS","title":"TITLE II. - CAPACITY OF PERSONS.","chapter":"Chapter 3. - Insane Persons and Infirm Persons","section":null,"paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"An insane person is one who, as a consequence of his being insufficiently developed or as a consequence of a mental disease or of his senility, is not capable of understanding the significance or effect of his actions.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/315/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":95,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/95/?article=315&paragraph=p1#article-315-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Persons who are feeble-minded, drunkard or habitually intoxicated, and persons who are prodigals shall in appropriate cases be assimilated to insane persons.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/315/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":95,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/95/?article=315&paragraph=p2#article-315-p2"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}