The criminal responsibility of lunatics, a study in comparative lawSweet & Maxwell, 1909 - 274 strán (strany) |
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The Criminal Responsibility of Lunatics: A Study in Comparative Law Heinrich Oppenheimer Úplné zobrazenie - 1909 |
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Strana 21 - 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...
Strana 170 - Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it but "sin
Strana 127 - This is not by way of atonement or expiation for the crime committed ; for that must be left to the just determination of the Supreme Being : but as a precaution against future offences of the same kind.
Strana 62 - Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who, at the time of doing it, by reason of unsoundness of mind, is incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that he is doing what is cither wiong or contrary to law.
Strana 19 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Strana 195 - Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners...
Strana 214 - Here living tea-pots stand, one arm held out, One bent ; the handle this, and that the spout : A pipkin there, like Homer's tripod, walks; Here sighs a jar, and there a goose-pie talks ; Men prove with child, as powerful fancy works, And maids, turn'd bottles, call aloud for corks.
Strana 41 - A person labouring under specific delusions, but in other respects sane, shall not be acquitted on the ground of insanity unless the delusions caused him to believe in the existence of some state of things which, if it existed, would justify or excuse his act...
Strana 74 - A morbid propensity to commit prohibited acts, existing in the mind of a person- who is not shown to have been incapable of knowing the wrongfulness of such acts, forms no defense to a prosecution therefor.
Strana 13 - If," observes the same court, "the tests of insanity are matters of law, the practice of allowing experts to testify what they are should be discontinued; if they are matters of fact, the judge should no longer testify without being sworn as a witness, and showing himself to be qualified to testify as an expert.