 | 1899 - 474 Seiten
...and explain is 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, prevented either by defective mental power or by disease affecting his mind, from controlling his own conduct." Mr. Justice Hawkins in 1885, at a murder... | |
 | 1901 - 162 Seiten
...Digest of the Criminal Law, pp. 20, 21. The clauses in italics are doubtful. " 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,... | |
 | 1926 - 870 Seiten
...that condition, Stephens puts forward the following proposition, viz.: — " 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 qiiality of his act, or " (b) From knowing that the act is w.rong,... | |
 | John Hamilton Baker, Calgary Institute for the Humanities - 1981 - 350 Seiten
...English Criminal Laa) made provision for the insanity defence in Article 27: No act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done...defective mental power or) by any disease affecting the mind (a) from knowing the nature and quality of his act; (b) from knowing that the act is wrong;... | |
 | Carl Elliott - 1996 - 168 Seiten
...England (1883), Fitzjames Stephen wrote that an action should not be considered a crime if the agent was "prevented either by defective mental power or by...controlling his own conduct, unless the absence of the power of control has been produced by his own fault."9 Though it was much debated, the irresistible impulse... | |
 | Lawrie Reznek - 1997 - 354 Seiten
...ought to be the Law of England that no act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time . . . prevented either by defective mental power or by any...controlling his own conduct, unless the absence of the power of control has been produced by his own default. (Walker, 1968: 106) In this respect, he followed Cockburn's... | |
 | Alec Buchanan - 2000 - 166 Seiten
...Fitzjames Stephen agreed. He suggested: '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 control has been produced by his own default' (1883, p.168).14 In 1924 the Atkin Committee recommended... | |
 | 2001 - 170 Seiten
...slightly less confidently as an analysis of what really it was already : '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,... | |
 | 1954 - 86 Seiten
...all legislation, as follows : No act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it was done prevented either by defective mental power or...controlling his own conduct, unless the absence of the power of control has been produced by his own fault. The problem isn't so easy with other groups. That is,... | |
 | 1885 - 724 Seiten
...and explain is 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." I entirely agree with the idea contained in this... | |
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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... 
