The New Lunacy Acts, 8 & 9 Vict.cc.100, 126, with an Introduction, Abstracts, Notes, and Index;: And an Appendix, Containing the Statutes Relating to Insane Criminals and Prisoners, and a Statement of the Different Forms of Insanity. By W.G. Lumley, ..Shaw and Sons, Fetter Lane, 1845 - 250 pages |
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... the session of parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of his said late Ma- jesty , intituled An Act to continue for Three Years , and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament , Two Acts of the ...
... the session of parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of his said late Ma- jesty , intituled An Act to continue for Three Years , and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament , Two Acts of the ...
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... the session of parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her said present Majesty , intituled An Act to amend , and continue for Three Years , and from thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament , the Laws ...
... the session of parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her said present Majesty , intituled An Act to amend , and continue for Three Years , and from thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament , the Laws ...
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... the session of parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty , intituled An Act to alter and amend the Practice and Course of Proceeding under Commissions in the Nature of Writs De lunatico ...
... the session of parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty , intituled An Act to alter and amend the Practice and Course of Proceeding under Commissions in the Nature of Writs De lunatico ...
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9 Vict admission aforesaid apothecary appear apply appointed Barrister-at-Law charge chargeable clause clerk commis Commissioners in Lunacy commissioners or visitors committee of visitors common seal confined copy counties and boroughs county or borough custody death deemed detained direct discharge Ditto enacted enacted,2 entry erecting or providing expenses guardians hands and seals hereby house licensed house or hospital inquiry insane person licensed house Lord Chancellor lunatic asylum maintenance medical officer monies notice offence order and certificate overseer or relieving paid pauper lunatics pauper patients payment peace penalty physician Poor Law Poor Law Unions private committee proprietor or superintendant PUBLISHED BY SHAW purposes quarter sessions quires received reception of lunatics registered hospital relieving officer removal repealed respect schedule sect SHAW AND SONS signed sioners statute subscribers surgeon therein thereof think fit tion Tithe Tithe Commissioners treasurer union or parish visiting commissioners workhouse
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Page 96 - ... and give this Act and the special matter in evidence, at any trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the authority of this Act...
Page 216 - Person is insane, it shall be lawful for One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, upon Receipt of such Certificate, to direct, by Warrant under his Hand, that such Person shall be removed to such County Lunatic Asylum or other proper Receptacle for Insane Persons as the said Secretary of State may judge proper and appoint...
Page 136 - England, in the name and with the privity of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery, to be placed to his account...
Page 211 - ... shall order such person to be kept in strict custody, in such place and in such manner as to the court shall seem fit, until His Majesty's pleasure shall be known...
Page 103 - George the Third, intituled An Act for the better Care and Maintenance of Lunatics, being Paupers or Criminals, in England...
Page 125 - Guardians to whom any such Order shall be directed are hereby authorized and required to assess, raise, and levy such Sum or Sums of Money as may be necessary for the Purposes specified in such Order, by such Powers, Ways, and Means as are now by Law given to or vested in Churchwardens and Overseers or Guardians of the Poor for...
Page 121 - London, the town council of any borough for the time being subject to the act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled " An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales...
Page 215 - Person to be settled, may appeal against such Order to the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the County where such Order shall be made, in like Manner and under like Restrictions and Regulations as against any Order of Removal, giving reasonable Notice thereof to the Clerk of the Peace of such County, who shall be Respondent in such Appeal...
Page 159 - ... under the provisions of the Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled 'An Act for regulating the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels, to exceed twelve weeks, having fifty persons or upwards on board...
Page 218 - Majesty shall seem fit; and in all Cases where any Person before the passing of this Act has been acquitted of any such Offence on the Ground of Insanity at the Time of the Commission thereof, and has been detained in Custody as a dangerous Person by Order of the Court before whom such Person has been tried, and still remains in Custody, it shall be lawful for...