 | 1811 - 546 pages
...such dangerous foundation. — I must convince you, not only that the unhappy prisoner was a lunaticr within my own definition of lunacy, but that the act...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-... | |
 | 1811 - 600 pages
...from criminal justice. I shall 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 or' lunacy, but that the act in question wag tllC IMMEDIATE, UNQUALIFIED OFFSPRING OP THE DISEASE.... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1812 - 278 pages
...from criminal justice. I shall place my claim to your verdict upon no such dangerous foundation. — I must convince you, not only that the unhappy Prisoner...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... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1812 - 556 pages
...from criminal justice. I shall place my claim to your verdict upon no such dangerous foundation. — I must convince you, not only that the unhappy prisoner...lunacy, but that the 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... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1813 - 278 pages
...from criminal justice. I shall place my claim to your verdict upon no such dangerous foundation. I must convince you, not only that the unhappy prisoner...definition of lunacy, but that the act in question was the IMMEDIATE,UNQUALIFIED OFFSPRING OF THE DISEASE. In civil cases, as I have already said, the law avoids... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1824 - 594 pages
...of a morbid delusion of the intellect, and admitted that it was necessary for them to be satisfied that the act in question was the immediate unqualified offspring of the disease. And Lord Kenyon held that as the prisoner wras deranged immc[* 19] diately before the offence was committed,... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1826 - 780 pages
...of a morbid delusion of the intellect, and admitted that it was necessary for them to be satisfied that the act in question was the immediate unqualified offspring of the disease. And Lord Kenyon held that as the prisoner was deranged immediately before the offence was committed,... | |
 | John Haggard - 1830 - 710 pages
...trace or connect the morbid imagination with the act itself. If the mind is unsound, the act is void. The law avoids every act of the lunatic during the' period of the lunacy, although the act to be avoided cannot be connected with the influence of the insanity, and may be proper in itself.... | |
 | Great Britain, Great Britain. Courts - 1832 - 612 pages
...trace or connect the morbid imagination with the act itself. If the mind is unsound, the act is void. The law avoids every act of the lunatic during the period of the lunacy, although the act to be avoided cannot be connected with the influence of the insanity, and may be proper in itself.... | |
 | Leonard Shelford - 1833 - 964 pages
...of a morbid delusion of the intellect, and admitted that it was necessary for them to be satisfied that the act in question was the immediate unqualified offspring of the disease. And Lord Kenyan held, that as the prisoner was deranged immediately before the offence was committed,... | |
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... for a crime, he ought not, in my opinion, to be acquitted; and if courts of law were to be governed by any other principle, every departure from sober, rational conduct would be an emancipation from criminal justice. I shall place my claim to your... 
