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Reasonable doubt

some light, airy, insubstantial doubt that may fit through the minds of any of us about almost anything at some time

such cruelty as to cause a reasonable apprehension in the mind of the petitioner that it will be harmful or injurious

formerly issued to inquire into the condition of a person's mind. Those judges [see (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 17; Jud.

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Idiot. An idiot is a person born without a mind. For Coke's classification of persons of unsound mind, see Co.

'any harm whatever illegally caused to any person, in body mind, reputation or property, S. Harnam Singh v. State (Delhi Admn),

in lunacy, as to whether a person is of unsound mind and incapable of managing his affairs. It is held before

Mens rea, a guilty mind. See ACTUS NON FACIT REUM, NISI MENS SIT REA. Although

ss. 163 to 206, Chancery visitors of persons of unsound mind, so found by inquisition, appointed by the Lord Chancellor visiting

Consent, an act of reason accompanied with delib-erations, the mind weighing, as in a balance, the good or evil on

necessary, stop delivery and say that he has changed his mind. There is no need for him to be physically present

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