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Adjective: compos mentis  'kóm-pus'men-tis
  1. Of sound mind, memory, and understanding; in law, competent to go to trial
    "He who sets up the fact that the testator was non compos mentis must prove it"
    - of sound mind

See also: sane

Encyclopedia: Compos mentis