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Asylums - Law and legislation

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    Lunacy versus liberty : a letter to the Lord Chancellor, on the defective state of the law, as regards insane persons, and private asylums for their reception : with remarks, original and select, including the author's own case, and others / by William Griggs.

    Griggs, William, late Patient at Kensington House. | Date: 1832
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    Anno decimo sexto & decimo septimo, victoriae reginae : cap. XCVII. : an act to consolidate and amend the laws for the provision and regulation of lunatic asylums for counties and boroughs, and for the maintenance and care of pauper lunatics, in England.

    | Date: [1853]

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