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Jury
Jury of Matrons (q.v.). Now the qualifications are the same for each sex. Certain persons, as aliens, felons, lunatics, blind and deaf persons, are disqualified. Exemption from service may be claimed by peers, M.P.'s, clergy-men, ministers and
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or of those of whom it had the custody by virtue of its prerogative (such as idiots and lunatics), or whose rights are under its particular protection (such as the objects of a public charity), the matter
House of Commons
Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 12). Aliens are not eligible as members, neither are minors, lunatics, English or Scotch peers; but Irish peers, unless representative, may sit for any place in Great Britain. The
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Bethlehem
A hospital for lunatics corrupted into bedlam
De lunatico inquirendo, writ
De lunatico inquirendo, writ, a process formerly issued to inquire into the condition of a person's mind. Those judges [see
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;
Chancellor, Lord
twenty marks per annum in the king's books. He is the general guardian of all infants, idiots, and lunatics, and has the general superintendence of all charitable uses'and all this, over and above the vast and extensive
Brief, or Brieve, out of the Chancery
in Scotland in the name of the sovereign in the election of tutors to minors, the cognoscing of lunatics or of idiots, and ascertaining the widow's terce; and sometimes in dividing the property belonging to heirs-portioners. In
Lunular
Having a form like that of the new moon shaped like a crescent lunate
Parens patriae
classes of persons, who, from their legal disability, stand in need of protection, such as infants, idiots, and lunatics.
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