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Feeble-minded persons

IDIOT. As to Scotland, see the (English) Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 38).

Escape

54, s. 11. As to persons of unsound mind, see Lunacy Act, 1890, ss. 85-89. See RESCUE. The act or an

Drunkenness

a 'person who, not being amenable to any jurisdiction in lunacy, is, notwithstanding, by reason of habitual intemperate drinking of intoxicating

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Dissolution

upon in the Articles of partnership, or by death, marriage, lunacy, bankruptcy, or by judgment of the High Court, (English) Partnership

Appeal, Court of (U.K.)

other than in the Prize Court, or in matters of lunacy. The Court (which usually sits in two divisions) consists of

De praerogative regis

being disinherited. The Act is not repealed by the consolidating Lunacy Act, 1890.

Consolidation Acts (English)

1887, the Arbitration Act, 1889, the Factors Act, 1889, the Lunacy Act, 1890, the Stamp Act, 1891, the Merchant Shipping Act,

Chancery

(English) T. Act, 1925, and (English) T.A. Rules (Jurisdiction in Lunacy), 1925. (II) The powers and jurisdiction of the Court of

Caveat

It is sometimes entered to prevent the issuing of a lunacy commission. It is also entered to stay certain proceedings in

Board of Control

that section, and also the powers and duties of the Lunacy Commissioners which were transferred to the (English) Board by the

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