 | 1811 - 546 pages
...question was the IMMEDIATE, UNQUALIFIED OFFSPRING OF TUB DISEASE. Ill civil cases, as I have already said, the law avoids every act of the lunatic during- the period of the lunacy ; although the delusion may be extremely circunvsoribed ; although the mind may be quite sound in all that is not... | |
 | English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...wag tllC IMMEDIATE, UNQUALIFIED OFFSPRING OP THE DISEASE. Il> civil cases, as I have already said, the law avoids every act of the lunatic during the period of the lunacy ; although the delusion may be extremely circumscribed ; although the mind may be quite sound in all that is not within... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 556 pages
...act in question was the IMMEDIATE, OFFSPRING OF THE DISEASE. In civil casqs, as I have already said, the law avoids every act of the lunatic during the period of the lunacy ; although the delusion may be extremely circumscribed ; although the mind may be quite sound in all that is not within... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Forensic orations - 1812 - 278 pages
...question was the IMMEDIATE, UNQUALIFIED OFFSPRING OP THE DISEASE. Ill civil cases, as I have already said, the law avoids every act of the lunatic during the period of the lunacy ; although the delusion may be extremely circumscribed ; although the mind may be quite sound in all that is not within... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1812 - 282 pages
...question was the IMMEDIATE, UNQUALIFIED OFFSPRING OF THE DISEASE. In civil cases, as I have already said, the law avoids every act of the lunatic during the period of the lunacy; although the delusion may be extremely circumscribed ; although the mind may be quite sound in all that is not within... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 634 pages
...question was the IMMEDIATE UNQUALIFIED OFFSPRING OF THE DISEASE. In civil cases, as I have already said, the law avoids every act of the lunatic during the period of the lunacy; although the delusion may be extremely circumscribed; although the mind may be quite sound in all that is not within... | |
 | Great Britain, Great Britain. Courts - Divorce - 1832 - 612 pages
...differed from the jury), and Lord Thurlow (sitting in a court of equity) two great authorities—laid down principles and doctrines precisely such as are...admitted and is proved, that the deceased had been actually insane before any testamentary act was done,. or, as far as appears, ever was proposed by... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Anatomy - 1836 - 560 pages
...question was the immediate unqualified offspring of the disease. In civil cases, as I have already said, the law avoids every act of the lunatic during the period of the lunacy, although the delusion may be extremely circumscribed, although the mind may be quite sound in all that is not within... | |
 | Scotland. Court of Session - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 1332 pages
...affections of the deceased. ' Another rule of law is, that in civil suits it is not necessary to 4 trace or connect the morbid imagination with the act...during the period of the lunacy, although the act 4 to be avoided cannot be connected with the influence of the in4 sanity.' Per Sir John Nicholl, 2... | |
 | Francis James Newman Rogers - Ecclesiastical law - 1840 - 1136 pages
...morbid imagination Insanity. with the act itself. If the mind is unsound the act is void. The Lucid law avoids every act of the lunatic, during the period of the interval. lunacy, although the act to be avoided cannot be connected with the influence of the insanity,... | |
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... place my claim to your verdict upon no such dangerous foundation. I must convince you not only that the unhappy prisoner was a lunatic, within my own definition of lunacy, but that the act in question was the immediate, unqualified offspring of the... 
