A Manual of Medical JurisprudenceJ. & A. Churchill, 1879 - 790 Seiten |
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Seite 604 - And be it further enacted, that no will made by any person under the age of twenty-one years shall be valid. VIII. Provided also, and be it further enacted, that no will made by any married woman shall be valid, except such a will as might have been made by a married woman before the passing of this Act.
Seite 520 - ... whosoever, with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether she be or be not with child, shall unlawfully administer to her or cause to be taken by her any poison or other noxious thing, or shall unlawfully use any instrument or other means whatsoever with the like intent, shall be guilty of felony...
Seite 712 - AB is a lunatic [or an idiot, or a person of unsound mind], and a proper person to be taken charge of and detained under care and treatment, and that I have formed this opinion upon the following grounds, viz.
Seite 735 - In a letter, attached to the will, the testator said, " The world may think this to be done in a spirit of singularity or whim, but I have a mortal aversion to funeral pomp, and I wish my body to be converted into purposes useful to mankind.
Seite 563 - Hunter long ago suggested, a child may breathe and die. Thus, according to this author, — ' If the child makes but one gasp and instantly dies, the lungs will swim in water as readily as if it had breathed longer and had then been strangled.' In general, it would require more than one gasp to cause the lungs to swim readily In water ; but waiving this point, the real question is, — If the child breathed after birth, what could have caused its death ? The number of gasps which a child may make,...
Seite 693 - The main character of insanity, in a legal view, is considered to be the existence of delusion — ie that a person ; should believe something to exist which does not exist, and that he should act upon this belief. Many persons may labour under harmless delusions, and still be fitted for their social duties ; but should these delusions be such as to lead them to injure themselves or others in person or property, then the case is considered to require legal interference.
Seite 47 - whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously administer to or cause to be administered to or taken by any other person any poison or other destructive or noxious thing, so as thereby to endanger the life of such person, or so as thereby to inflict upon such person any grievous bodily harm, shall be guilty of felony...
Seite 499 - If any woman shall be delivered of a child, every person who shall, by any secret disposition of the dead body of the said child, whether such child died before, at, or after its birth, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour...
Seite 46 - ... with intent in any of such cases thereby to enable himself or any other person to commit, or with intent in any of such cases thereby to assist any other person in committing, any indictable offence, shall be guilty of felony...
Seite 747 - The answer to this question was, that the judges were unanimous in opinion, that if the delusion was only partial, the party accused was equally liable with a person of sane mind. If the accused killed another in self-defence, he would be entitled to an acquittal ; but if committed for any supposed injury, he would then be liable to the punishment awarded by the laws to his crime.