potes mentie: First, an idiot, or fool natural; second, he who was of good and sound mind and memory, but by the act of God has lost it; third, a lunatic, lunaticus qué gaudet lucidis intervallis, who sometimes is of good sound mind and memory, and sometimes non compos mentite, fourth, one who is non compos mentis by his own act, as a drunkard. Co. Litt. 247a; 4 Coke, 124. c