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Mental Deficiency Act
Mental Deficiency Act. See IDIOT.
Murder
committing the offence must be conscious of doing wrong, and able to discern between good and evil. See IDIOT; LUNATIC; DRUNKENNESS AND MACNAUGHTON'S CASE. (2) Death must result within a year and a day after the cause
Non compos mentis
Non compos mentis, said of a person who is not of sound memory and understanding. See IDIOT, MENTAL DEFECTIVE, and PERSON OF UN-SOUND MIND.
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Parens patriae
over various classes of persons, who, from their legal disability, stand in need of protection, such as infants, idiots, and lunatics.
Person of unsound mind
enlightened age persons afflicted with a mental illness affecting their reason are to be known, as distinguished from Idiots, Imbeciles, Feeble-minded Persons and Moral Defectives under the Mental Deficiency Act, 1927 (17 & 18Geo. 5, c. 33)
Purus idiota
Purus idiota (a congenital idiot). See 2 Steph. Com.
De idiota inquirendo
De idiota inquirendo, a Common Law writ to inquire whether a man be an idiot or not. Obsolete, Fitz. N.
De lunatico inquirendo, writ
s. 17; Jud. Act, 1875, s. 7] to whom, by special authority from the sovereign, the custody of idiots and lunatics is entrusted may, upon petition or information, grant a commission in the nature of a writ
VerbarNon compos
Not of sound mind not having the regular use of reason hence also as a noun an idiot a lunatic one devoid of reason either by nature or from accident
Clerk of the custodies
Clerk of the custodies of lunatics and idiots; abolished, see 2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 111; 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 84; and 5
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