 | William Blackstone - 1916 - 1380 Seiten
...eorreetly expressed in the 27ih Artiele of my Digest, whieh is as follows: No aet is a erime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done prevented, either by defeetive mental power, or by any disease affeeting his mind — (a) From knowing the nature and quality... | |
 | Alberta. Supreme Court - 1918 - 596 Seiten
...Fitzjames Stephen in his Digest of the Criminal Law, which is as follows : "No act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done,...mental power or] by any disease affecting his mind : (a) from knowing the nature and quality of his act, or (b) from knowing that the act is wrong, [or... | |
 | 1918 - 488 Seiten
...Sir James Stephen in his Digest of the Criminal Law, which is as follows: "No act is a,<crime, if the person who does it is, at the time when it is 'done,...mental power or) by any disease affecting his mind — (a) from knowing the nature and quality of his act or; (6) from knowing that the act is wrong (or,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Criminal Appeal - 1922 - 244 Seiten
...21, recognises the absence of the power of control as an excuse in law. " No act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done...mental power or] by any disease affecting his mind (a) from knowing the nature and quality of his act; or (b) from knowing that the act is wrong; [or... | |
 | Maurice Hamblin Smith - 1922 - 200 Seiten
...mankind." Sir James Stephen gave as his opinion that the law is as follows : " No act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done prevented [either by defective mental power or] by disease affecting his mind : (a) From knowing the nature and quality of his act, or (b) From knowing... | |
 | Alfred Frank Tredgold - 1922 - 664 Seiten
...exhaustive treatise of Sir FitzJames Stephen. According to this eminent jurist, " No act is a crime if the person who does it is, at the time when it is done, prevented from controlling his own conduct, unless the absence of the power of control has been produced by his... | |
 | 1924 - 580 Seiten
...Rep. 285. 89 2 Stephen, History of the Criminal Law, ch. 19. 90 Article 27. "No act is a crime if the person who does it is, at the time when it is done,...mental power or) by any disease affecting his mind (a) from knowing the nature and quality of his act; or (b) from knowing that the act is wrong; (or... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1926 - 526 Seiten
...be, in the words of the leading authority on criminal law already quoted : ' No act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done...mental power or by any disease affecting his mind (a) from knowing the nature and quality of his act, or (6) from knowing that the act is wrong, or (c)... | |
 | American Medical Association. Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases - 1907 - 518 Seiten
...Stephen maintained that "if it is not it ought to be the law of England that no act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done...controlling his own conduct, unless the absence of the power of control has been produced by his own default." He admtis, however, that the law is capable of being... | |
 | 1886 - 518 Seiten
...for what he does." " If it is not, it ought to te the law of England, that no act is a crime, if the person who does it is, at the time when it is done, prevented cither by defective mental power, or by any disease affecting his mind from controlling his own conduct,... | |
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No act is a crime if the person who does it is, at the time when it is done, prevented, either by defective mental power, or by any disease affecting his mind... 
