 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas. A LUNATIC, or non comfioa mentis, is one who hath had understanding, but by...grief, or other accident hath lost the use of his reason1". A lunatic is indeed properly one that hath lucid intervajs ; sometimes enjoying his senses,... | |
 | Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...any. A lunatic, or nan Compos mentis, is one who hath had under-* standing, hut by disease, grjet, or other accident, hath lost the Use of his reason. A lunatic is indeed properly one that has lucid intervals; sometimes enjoying his senses, and sometimes not, and that frequently depending... | |
 | Dominick T. Blake - Civil procedure - 1818 - 706 pages
...incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas. A lunatic, or non compos mentis, is one who hath had understanding, but by a disease or other accident hath lost the use of his reason. A lunatic, is indeed, properly one who... | |
 | Henry Ballow, John Fonblanque - Equity - 1820 - 492 pages
...Lord Chancellor was of opinion, that it was utterly void. Prodgersv. Phrazier, i Vern. 12. " A lunatic is one who hath had understanding, but by disease,...grief, or other accident, hath lost the use of his senses. A lunatic is, indeed, properly, one that hath lucid intervals ; sometimes enjoying his senses,... | |
 | Theodric Romeyn Beck - Medical jurisprudence - 1825 - 696 pages
...S31. perty. He also is to provide for them, and at their death render* their estates to their heirs. " A lunatic, or non compos mentis, is one who hath had...intervals; sometimes enjoying his senses, and sometimes not,'and that frequently depending upon the change of the moon. But, under the general name of non... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas. A LUNATIC, or . non compos mentis, is one who hath...or other accident, hath lost the use of his reason r. A lunatic is indeed properly one that hath lucid intervals ; sometimes enjoying his senses, and... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas. A LUNATIC, or nail compos mentis, is one who hath had understanding,...or other accident, hath lost the use of his reason r. A lunatic is indeed properly one that hath lucid intervals ; sometimes enjoying his senses, and... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Sergeant, William Rawle - Law reports, digests, etc - 1825 - 496 pages
...incapacitates him from making a will. A lunatic or non compos mentis is defined by Blackstone to be, one who hath had understanding, but by disease, grief,...or other accident, hath lost the use of his reason. And he says under the general name of non compos mentis are comprized, not only lunatics or persons... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas. A lunatic, or non compos mentis, is one who hath had understanding, hut by disease, grief, ot other accident, hath lost the use of his reason, (r) A lunatic is indeed... | |
 | Leonard Shelford - Costs (Law) - 1833 - 964 pages
...has an influence upon mental disorders (q). The term signifies, in its legal acceptation, one who has had understanding, but, by disease, grief, or other...accident, hath lost the use of his reason. A lunatic is properly one that hath had lucid intervals, sometimes enjoying his senses, and sometimes not (r). It... | |
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A lunatic, or non compos mentis, is one who hath had understanding, but by disease, grief, or other accident, hath lost the use of his reason... 
