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... EVIDENCE RESPECTING THE EXISTENCE OF INSANITY . 1. The law requires satisfactory evidence of insanity 2. The object of judicial investigations of insanity . 3. The test of unsound mind ought to be fixed as far " as possible . 4 ...
... EVIDENCE RESPECTING THE EXISTENCE OF INSANITY . 1. The law requires satisfactory evidence of insanity 2. The object of judicial investigations of insanity . 3. The test of unsound mind ought to be fixed as far " as possible . 4 ...
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... evidence of insanity 12. Evidence of insanity in other members of the family not admissible . 13. Control over persons represented to be insane not to be assumed without necessity 14. Duty of Lord Chancellor to require evidence of ...
... evidence of insanity 12. Evidence of insanity in other members of the family not admissible . 13. Control over persons represented to be insane not to be assumed without necessity 14. Duty of Lord Chancellor to require evidence of ...
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... evidence or facts are connected with the general con- clusion , or from the interference of matters of belief , prepos- sessions , prejudices , or passions . Every person , even of the soundest mind , is liable to incorrect judgment if ...
... evidence or facts are connected with the general con- clusion , or from the interference of matters of belief , prepos- sessions , prejudices , or passions . Every person , even of the soundest mind , is liable to incorrect judgment if ...
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... evidence and facts seem to have impressed one side with the opinion that a party is of unsound mind , and the other that he is of sound mind ; this contrariety has been exhibited on various public occasions , and , with those who cannot ...
... evidence and facts seem to have impressed one side with the opinion that a party is of unsound mind , and the other that he is of sound mind ; this contrariety has been exhibited on various public occasions , and , with those who cannot ...
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... evidence of some of the physicians conversant with this subject , who were examined before the committee of the House of Lords , there has been of late years a considerable improvement in the medical and moral treatment of the insane ...
... evidence of some of the physicians conversant with this subject , who were examined before the committee of the House of Lords , there has been of late years a considerable improvement in the medical and moral treatment of the insane ...
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Page 401 - ... within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to the person making or bringing the same.
Page 500 - ... shall be understood to include several matters as well as one matter, and several persons as well as one person, and females as well as males, and bodies corporate as well as individuals unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction...
Page 762 - ... it shall be lawful for the said lessor at any time thereafter into and upon the said demised premises or any part thereof in the name of the whole to re-enter and the same to have again re-possess and enjoy as of his or their former estate anything hereinafter contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 231 - that nothing was better established than this principle, that money directed to be employed in the purchase of land, and land directed to be sold and turned into money, are to be considered as that species of property into which they are directed to be converted...
Page 537 - ... be paid into the Bank of England, in the name and with the privity of the Accountant General of the High Court of Chancery, to be placed to his account...
Page 580 - And be it further enacted, that this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices, and others, without being specially pleaded.
Page 527 - ... to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal, or Master of the Rolls...
Page 401 - ... shall have expired, make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover such land or interest at any time within five years next after the passing of this Act.
Page 78 - ... so many and such good and lawful men of his bailiwick (as well within liberties as without) by whom the truth of the matter in the premises shall be the better known and inquired into.
Page xlvi - Had wander'd from its dwelling, and her eyes They had not their own lustre, but the look Which is not of the earth; she was become The queen of a fantastic realm; her thoughts Were combinations of disjointed things; And forms impalpable and unperceived Of others