| Matthew Hale, Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1800 - 686 pages
...fvpra cap. 4. who fliall be faid non compos. It is not every melancholy or hypochontlriacal diilemper, that denominates a man non compos, for there are few, who commit this offenfe, but are under fnch infirmities, but it muft be fuch an alienation of mind, that renders them... | |
| Thomas Walter Williams - Judges - 1808 - 906 pages
...there are few who со innit this offence but i" under such infirmities; but it must bn such а ч alienation of mind as renders a person to be a madman...destitute of the use of reason, which will denominate bim KOS cumpas, llalli Hist. 415Í. And not only he who deliberately kills himself, but also ' •... | |
| William Waller Hening - Forms (Law) - 1810 - 710 pages
...Hale says, it is not every melancholy or Kypocondriacal distemper that denominates a man non com/tot, for there are few who commit this offence, but are...of the use of reason, which will denominate him non com/iot. 1 HH 412. The offender herein doth incur a forfeiture of goods and chattels, but not of lands... | |
| Richard Burn - 1831 - 972 pages
...certain a person non compos menta can be guilty of no crime. 1 Hawk. c. 27, ». 3. And Lord Hale says, it is not every melancholy or hypochondriacal distemper...man non compos, for there are few who commit this oflence but are under such infirmities; but it must be such an alienation of mind, as renders a person... | |
| Leonard Shelford - Costs (Law) - 1833 - 964 pages
...homicide, the act must be that which makes the offence. But it is not every melancholy or hypocondriacal distemper that denominates a man non compos, for there...but it must be such an alienation of mind as renders them madmen, or frantic, or destitute of the use of reason (b). SECTION II. Of Criminal Offences and... | |
| Richard Burn - Justices of the peace - 1836 - 1178 pages
...MS. Bayley BSC 1 Л/. 356. It is not every melancholy or hypochondriacal distemper that Non compos, denominates a man non compos, for there are few who commit this who is. offence but are under such infirmities ; but it must be such an alienation of mind as renders... | |
| Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1844 - 732 pages
...that which makes the offence. Hal. Hist. PC 412. (E) How far the Want of Understanding will excuae. denominates a man non compos, for there are few who...it must be such an alienation of mind . as renders them to be madmen, or frantic, or destitute of the use of reason. Hal. Hist. PC 412. || See the case... | |
| Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...makes the offense. P. 22 E. 3. Coron. 244. Co. PC 54. vide supra cap. 4. who shall be said non compos. It is not every melancholy or hypochondriacal distemper,...man non compos, for there are few, who commit this offense, but are under such infirmities, but it must be such an alienation of mind, that renders them... | |
| Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1847 - 784 pages
...makes the offense. P. 22 E. 3. Coron. 244. Co. PC 54. vide supra cap. 4. who shall be said non compos. offense, but are under such infirmities, but it must be such an alienation of mind, that renders them... | |
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