 | English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...contended for is clearly expressed, and with a singulat felicity of diction too, in the following pasage. ' Delusion, therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity ; and where it cannot be predicated of a man standing for life or death for a crime, he ought not,... | |
 | 1811 - 546 pages
...clearly 'expressed , and with a singular felicity of diction tox>, in the following pasage. * Delu'ion, therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, Is the true character of insanity ; and where it cannot be predicated of a man standing for life or death for a crime, he ought not,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Forensic orations - 1812 - 282 pages
...subjugated understanding, incapable of resistance, because unconscious of attack. 2 JTOn JAMES HADFIELD. Vf Delusion, therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity ; and where it cannot be predicated of a man standing for life or death for a crime, he ought not,... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 556 pages
...for is clearly expressed, and with a singular felicity of diction too, in the following passage : " Delusion, therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity ; and where it cannot be predicated of a man standing for life or death for a crime, he ought not,... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1812 - 282 pages
...incapable of resistance, because unconscious of attack. 2 - -^ -- • ,. v , FOR JAMES HADFIELD. 27 Delusion, therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity ; and where it cannot be predicated of a man standing for life or death for a crime, he ought not,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 634 pages
...is thrust upon the subjugated understanding, incapable of resistance, because unconscious of attack. Delusion, therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity ; and where it cannot be predicated of a man standing for life or death for 2 crime, he ought not,... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Anatomy - 1836 - 560 pages
...the subjugated understanding, incapable of resistance, because unconscious of attack. j " Ddusion, therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity; and where it cannot be predicated of a man standing for life or death for a crime, he ought not, in... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 532 pages
...is thrust upon the subjugated understanding, incapable of resistance because unconscious of attack. Delusion, therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity ; and when it cannot be predicated of a man standing for life 1 Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence... | |
 | Daniel MACNAUGHTON - 1843 - 96 pages
...with that delusion out of which, and out of which alone, it sprung. " Delusion," says Lord Erskine, " therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity, and where it cannot be predicated of a man standing for life or death for a crime, he ought not, in... | |
 | Abner Rogers (Jr.), George Tyler Bigelow, George Bemis - Criminal liability - 1844 - 312 pages
...in the trial cited by my associate,* lays it down in strong and emphatic language, that, " delusion, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity; and that the true doctrine of law is, that the delusion and the act should be connected." The case... | |
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Delusion, therefore, where there IS no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity ; and where it cannot be predicated of a man standing for life or death for a crime, he ought not, in my opinion, to be acquitted... 
