also: きんじさん
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.
A related old legal status for persons with diminished capacity, less severe than full incompetency.
Standard kanji form; the reading きんちさん is the most common.
Alternate reading; less common than きんちさん.
A compound of 禁 (prohibit, restrict), 治 (govern, manage), and 産 (property, assets), referring to the restriction of a person's ability to manage their own property. The term is now obsolete in modern Japanese law.