Defects of the Lunacy Law

A 'Scottish Poor Law of Lunacy'? Poor Law, Lunacy Law and Scotland's parochial asylums.

Scotland's parochial asylums are unfamiliar institutional spaces. Representing the concrete manifestation of the collision between two spheres of legislation, the Poor Law and the Lunacy Law, six such asylums were constructed in the latter half of the nineteenth century. These sites expressed the enduring mandate of the Scottish Poor Law 1845 over the domain of 'madness'. They were institutions...

Legal Protection of Mentally Retarded People from Perspective of Medical Law and Iranian Judiciary Procedure

Since in Iranian jurisprudence and law, the mentally retarded people have not been clearly included among the ward (minor, incompetents and lunatics), their position and legal status are required to be studied. The current research aims at filling the existing gap in this field and eradication of ambiguities and doubts as well as legal and judiciary gaps through a serious effort. Having referre...

Mr. Dyce Sombre on the English Law of Lunacy

of the English Law of Lunacy," with which he concludes his " Refutation."] " My own painful example must convince every impartial mind, that personal liberty, so jealously guarded in England by the law, is liable to be infringed with the greatest ease 011 the mere plea of lunacy. By the English law, the Lord High Chancellor, upon petition supported by affidavits, grants a commission to inquire ...

The Law of Lunacy *"A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Ashley, M.P., relative to the Case of Nottidge versus Ripley. By T. T. Wingett, M.D., Medical Superintendent of the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum. Dundee. 1849."—2. "The Defects of the Law of Lunacy: a Vindication of the Decision of the Lord Chief Baron, in the Case of Nottidge verses Ripley. By T. T. Wingett, M.D. Dundee. 1849."

Lord Chief Baron's opinion?which he (Dr. Wingett) declares to have " already done much mischief in the judicial proceedings of Scotland" ?yet declares that? " It is, palpably, the grossest absurdity to impeach the judge for the results of this case; he has merely propounded the law?extreme law it may be-?but the law nevertheless. The law only is at fault, and if we insist upon attacking the law...

Lunacy Law for Medical Men

Dr. Mercier's name is so well known in lunacy that we felt confident that a book dealing with the Lunacy Law from his hands would be valuable. This book, though small, is yet so excellent and systematic in its arrangement, and so lucid in the setting forth of its subject, that no medical man using it as his guide need doubt his ability to understand the Lunacy Act of 1890 so far as is necessary...

Insanity and the Lunacy Law