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Partnership
is not dissolved by the death of a limited partner, and in the case of his becoming a lunatic the Court will not consider this a ground for dissolution of the partnership unless the lunatic's share cannot
Person of unsound mind
Moral Defectives under the Mental Deficiency Act, 1927 (17 & 18Geo. 5, c. 33) (see those titles, and LUNATICS). The statute law affecting persons of unsound mind in contained in the (English) Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts,
Escape
with hard labour, to aid a prisoner to escape. Rescue or conniving at the escape of a criminal lunatic is penalised by 23 & 24 Vict. c. 75, ss. 11 and 13, and 47 & 48 Vict.
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Pension
without the option of a fine; or maintained as a rate aided patient of unsound mind; or criminal lunatic; or in a mental hospital. But see (English) Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1936, s.
Peace, Breach of the
point of committing murder, and may break and enter a house to do so; and may arrest a lunatic about to do a mischief, and may arrest one against whom an indictment has been found; or may
Murder
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 of
Imperfect obligations
cannot be enforced by law. For an instance of payment of a debt of honour out of a lunatic's estate under very special circum-stances, see Re Whitaker, (1889) 42 Ch D 119.
Idiocy
is capable of understanding the nature of marriage and the marriage ceremony, then he cannot be called a lunatic or an idiot, Moujilal v. Chakravorti, 38 IA 1222; See also Usha v. Abraham, AIR 1988 Ker 96.
Guardian
s. 2 (j)] It means a person having the care of the person of a minor or a lunatic. [Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (34 of 1971), s. 2 (a)] It means a person having the
Dower
1; it can only arise in respect of deaths after 1925 in case the deceased husband was a lunatic or defective on January 1st, 1925, and died without regaining testamentary capacity or before his committee or receiver
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