The Insane and the Law: A Plain Guide for Medical Men, Solicitors, and Others, as to (I) the Detention and Treatment; (II) Maintenance; (III) Civil and Criminal Responsibility; and (IV) Capacity Either (a) to Give Evidence Or (b) to Make a Will, of Persons Mentally Afflicted; with Hints to Medical Witnesses and to Cross-examining Counsel |
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accused alleged lunatic appears application appointed asylum Bellingham Chancery Visitors charge clerk Commissioners in Lunacy committed Common Law contract county or borough Criminal Responsibility defence detained direct discharge disease doctrine Edition English law epilepsy evidence existence fact found by inquisition hospital or licensed House of Lords idiot inquiry insane person institution for lunatics Judge in Lunacy judicial authority jurisdiction jury Law Journal Reports Law Reports licensed house Lord Brougham Lord Chancellor Lunacy Act lunatic so found lunatic's MacNaughten's manager Masters in Lunacy medical certificate medical officer medical practitioner mental notice partial insanity pauper lunatic petition Pope on Lunacy prisoner private patient proper provisions question received reception order relieving officer removed sane sent signed single patient Sir James Mansfield statement testamentary act testamentary capacity testator thereof think fit tion trial unsound mind urgency order Vict visiting committee witness workhouse