禁治産
also: きんじさん
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Meanings
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incompetency; legal incompetence
A legal term referring to a person who has been adjudicated incompetent and placed under a guardian. This term was used under the old Civil Code; the current term is 成年被後見人 (seinen hikōken'nin).
A person who has been declared incompetent cannot perform legal acts on their own.
Under the old Civil Code, a guardian was appointed for an incompetent person.