Persons of Unsound Mind A separation of lunatics from the other inmates of the workhouses had been suggested in the Report of 1834.
In order to effect a change in the status of persons alleged to be of unsound mind, and to bring their persons and property under control, the aid of the jurisdiction in lunacy must be invoked.
All persons, except infants and married women and persons of unsound mind, may submit differences to arbitration.
The possession of children makes her a large stockholder in public morality, but her self-constituted agents act as her proxy without her authorization, as though she were of unsound mind, or not in existence.
A married woman may qualify as executor or administrator of the estate of a deceased person, and as guardian of the estate of a minor or person of unsound mind.
As a principle of law of universal application, a person of unsound mind is incompetent to make a valid disposition of his property, either before or after his decease, except during a lucid interval.
From all I have heard to-day, and from my personal observation, I am satisfied the prisoner is of unsound mind.
Decidedly that of imbecility--more imbecility than anything: he is decidedly, in my judgment, of unsound mind.
Was his making no attempt to escape, a proof of an unsound mind?
But I feel sure that he's of unsound mind at present: and I believe we could show it so clearly in court that the prosecution would find it impossible to convict.
Oh, I don't mean that it could be shown that he was of unsound mind when he used the company's funds and tampered with their books, though I have my own opinion about that.
In addition to this class of the insane there is an unascertained small number of persons of unsound mind in the horde of vagrant paupers, alluded to occasionally in the Lunacy Commissioners' Reports.
But that a man who takes pleasure in the punishment of others is said to be of unsound mind, is because he seems on this account to be devoid of the humane feeling which gives rise to clemency.
Since then an unsound mind is opposed to prudence, it seems that clemency and meekness are parts of prudence rather than of temperance.
On Monday, the 30th of March, he took his trial at the York assizes and was found by the jury to have been of unsound mind at the time of his committing the offence charged against him.
In civil matters it is enough to show that the party is of unsound mind, although it is not connected with the particular transaction.
He had from the time of his trial persisted in denying his guilt; but at length he confessed that he was rightly charged and convicted, pleading in excuse that he was of unsound mind at the time.
The marriage of a person who is a lunatic or of unsound mind is void, since such a person is not capable of consenting to the ceremony.
We maintain that responsibility to society, the only responsibility common to all criminals, exists also for criminals of unsound mind.
In the first place, it is evident that in a classification not exclusively biological, if it is to form the anthropological basis of criminal sociology, criminals of unsound mind must in all fairness be included.
Precisely, but you see you will have to prove, in the first place, that the girl was of unsound mind; and in the second, to prove conspiracy you will have to implicate two or more persons.
Hark you, sir, we can find the girl was of unsound mind, as I told you before, and have you indicted for a conspiracy.
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