 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1884 - 788 pages
...performed in their regular and usual manner. Insanity means a state in which one or more of the above-named mental functions is performed in an abnormal manner,...reason of some disease of the brain or nervous system. In commenting on the answers of the judges in the McNaughton case, says : lam of the opinion that even... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1883 - 518 pages
...performed in their regular and usual manner. Insanity means a state in which one or more of the above-named mental functions is performed in an abnormal manner...reason of some disease of the brain or nervous system. That the brain and the nervous system are the organs by which all mental operations are conducted is... | |
 | Alfred Swaine Taylor - 1883 - 708 pages
...performed in their regular and usual manner. Insanity means a state in which one or more of the abovenamed mental functions is performed in an abnormal manner...reason of some disease of the brain or nervous system (Stephen, J., ' Hist, of the Crim. Law of Eng.' vol. 3, p. 130.) Moral insanity. — In addition to... | |
 | 1886 - 396 pages
...performed in their regular and usual manner. Insanity means a state in which one or more of the above named mental functions is performed in an abnormal manner,...reason of some disease of the brain or nervous system (History Criminal Law, Eng. Vol. 3 p. MO)" Again " criminal responsibility signifies "nothing more... | |
 | Alfred Swaine Taylor - 1886 - 882 pages
...one or more of the above-named mental functions is performed in an abnormal manner, or not jierformed at all, by reason of some disease of the brain or nervous system.' (Stephen, J., ' Hist, uf the Grim. Law of Eng.,' vol. iii. p. 130.) Some medical practitioners have... | |
 | Canadian Institute - 1888 - 308 pages
...property and contracts generally. " Sanity," says a great English lawyer, " exists when the brain and the nervous system are in such condition that the...criminal matters. A similar rule applies in civil cases. How is it to be determined that any given person has knowledge of right and wrong, and a will to do... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1888 - 758 pages
...emotion and milling, are not performed in their regular and usual manner. One or more of the above-named functions is performed in an abnormal manner, or not performed at all. The outbursts of maniacal fury and destruction and homicidal impulses of epileptics are peculiar, in... | |
 | Alfred Swaine Taylor - 1892 - 836 pages
...performed in their regular and usual manner, Insanity means a state in which one or more of the abovenamed mental functions is performed in an abnormal manner,...reason of some disease of the brain or nervous system." (Stephen, J., Hist, of the Crim. Law of Eng., vol. iii. p. 130.) Some medical practitioners have attempted... | |
 | Edward Cox Mann - 1893 - 458 pages
...emotion and willing, are not performed in their regular and usual manner. One or more of the above-named functions is performed in an abnormal manner, or not performed at all. The outbursts of maniacal fury and destruction and homicidal impulses of epileptics are peculiar, in... | |
 | George Edgeworth Fenwick, Thomas George Roddick, George Ross - 1895 - 986 pages
...both those poisons, opium and alcohol, induce :i h-tate in which one or more of the above named menial functions is performed in an abnormal manner or not performed at all. Their due importance is not attached by lawyers to the more delicate obscure forms of disease of the... | |
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Sanity exists when the brain and the nervous system are in such a condition that the mental functions of feeling and knowing, emotion and willing, can be performed in their regular and usual manner... 
